Quotes About Self-expression

isn't wearing the right clothes, it's wearing clothes right.

And if it would be a restless nightingale, be a nightingale! You are a part and Reality is the Whole, So for a few days only meditate on the Whole, be the Whole! If in your heart a rose appears, be a rose!

What if I start making art again? What if I just did that? That is the thing I love, that is the thing I miss the most. For so long I have believed I could never catch up, but now I realize there's nothing to catch up to, there's only what I choose to make. There's still time, I think. I have so much time left.

Playing with them was boring, and it wasn't even their fault. It was just the notion of playing itself. She had never gotten the hang of it, even when she was a child. You needed to be able to adopt a personality other than your own in order to fully immerse yourself in the world of play, and it was burden enough carrying her own self around.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

People thought tolerance was the opposite of intolerance. Whereas in fact it was some meaningless neutrality. A child, any child, growing up, discovering herself and the nature of her deepest, most native desires - what use was tolerance to a child? It was encouragement she needed, encouragement first to be, then to love, herself. Or himself, whichever.

I'm just me – half a family, no awareness whatsoever about style, or what's in and what's out. I'm not like the lizards. I don't really even know how I'm supposed to be with a guy that I'm attracted to. I've never been a game player. I don't know how to be coy… or sexy… or whatever. I have no finesse.

Our own way is what our heart wants, and do not let others influence us.

Be not a Follower, because of others want that, be always the Leader from Ourselves. Jan Jansen

Just be who you are,' said Beth, 'because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Han hadde godtatt det alle stakk hodet i sanden for å skjule; at vi alle sakte men sikkert ble slipt like som stein på stranda, samme hva vi mente. Bak vår tilkjempete eksentrisitet, bak valget av fritidssysler, bak valg av kone, av studier, av forbilder, elskerinner, sigarettmerker og dagdrømmer, var vi alle konforme, snart var det bare fingeravtrykkene som viste at vi ikke var identiske.

I never did think that my own conundrum was a matter either of science or of social convention. I thought it was a matter of the spirit, a kind of divine allegory, and that explanations of it were not very important anyway. What was important was the liberty of us all to live as we wished to live, to love however we wanted to love, and to know ourselves, however peculiar, disconcerting or unclassifiable, at one with the gods and angels.

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

and this horrid bra that shoved my boobs under my chin. I had a cleavage cleft the size of most people's butt cracks.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

you can be different if u be u

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. —Truman Capote When

True creativity comes from enjoying the moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

In spite of honest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.