Chelsea Lankes Quotes

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

I'm a crybaby.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.

I'm not good at opening up with people.

We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.