Quotes About Self-expression

If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves!

Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton.

Freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves, and there is nothing that gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, to feel, and to say what is ours.

One can hardly overestimate people's need to talk about themselves and to be listened to.

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

Let's just say, I embraced my weirdness." He smiled. "Meaning?" "I liked being different.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

Amber Tamblyn

I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to ensure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

Bir insan kendini anlat?rken tarafs?zl?k, ucu yalana ç?kan all? pullu bir yol deÄŸil midir?

I don't think people can help it. We play with fire and tell ourselves we're just lighting a modest, necessary candle. We know discretion is called for and everything in us cries out to be seen, to spread our feathers.

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

Yeah, well you're not bad-looking, but you've got that stick up your ass and I always top. It'd get crowded, trust me. Now

You looked at me like I was beautiful and you let me be free." "You are beautiful. I wouldn't want you any way but free.

And I'm not going to be my dad's clone. And women don't turn me on. And Oliver is my home." -Rusty (Christmas Kitsch)

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Labels are for cans,' they say. If they do try a name on for size, 'queer' or 'dyke' or 'fag,' they rip it off the next day.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

dolls have no identity