Quotes About Self-expression

You made it; your get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given.

Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING.

the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?

And this commitment of ours—consciously devoid of official commitment—felt miraculous in its liberation.

Lapse saamine on umbes nagu oma näo tätoveerimine. Sa pead ikka raudselt kindel olema, et see on just see, mida sa tahad.

we can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris.

I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. Or if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself, or to relieve yourself of some great psychic burden, rather than to save or relieve us.

The thing about fashion, my dears, is that you don't need to follow it, no matter what they say. No fashion trend is compulsory, remember—and if you dress too much in the style of the moment, it makes you look like a nervous person.

But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business. Lastly, remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to." Actually, don't even bother answering. Just keep doing your thing.

If you don't have a clear passion and somebody blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger.

if you dress too much in the style of the moment, it makes you look like a nervous person.

I did believe that my behavior made me unusual—because it didn't seem to match the behavior of other women—but I didn't

when women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

It doesn't have to be perfect, and you don't have to be Plato.

I'm too old to hide who I am, Frank. And I'm too old to be made to feel ashamed of myself by anyone—

Because often what keeps you from creative living is your self-absorption (your self-doubt, your self-disgust, your self-judgment, your crushing sense of self-protection). The arrogance of belonging pulls you out of the darkest depths of self-hatred—not by saying "I am the greatest!" but merely by saying "I am here!" I

it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now

don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

of the 1950s. It was on the rooftop of our little bridal boutique that I learned this truth: when women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you

It also never occurred to me to go ask an authority figure for permission to become a writer. I'd never seen anybody in my family ask anyone for permission to do anything. They just made stuff. So that's what I decided to do: I decided to just go make stuff.

Bagavad Gita - drevna indijska knjiga joge - tvrdi da je bolje nesavršeno živeti svoju sudbinu nego savršeno živeti imitaciju ne?ijeg života. Stoga ja sada po?injem da živim svoj život. Naizgled nesavršen i trapav ali tipi?an prikaz mene same.

If what I've written here ends up helping you, that's great, and I will be glad. That would be a wonderful side effect. But at the end of the day, I do what I do because I like doing it.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.