Quotes About Self-expression

We don't say what we feel even when it would be appropriate, and we fail to set boundaries to people's harmful behavior. We find it hard to ask for a raise or a promotion or the respect due to us. Losing our bold spirit, a positive form of aggression, is losing a deep part of our self, and it is inevitably painful.

Working on yourself like clay should be one of your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist—an artist creating yourself.

What we most deeply desire, however, is to create our world for ourselves. Whenever we can do that, even in the slightest degree, we are happy. Now in play we create our own world...

Leonardo ansiaba aprender todas esas habilidades, pero pronto descubrió algo en sí mismo: no podía hacer sencillamente lo que se le encargara; debía convertirlo en algo propio, inventar en vez de imitar al maestro.

Embrace Your Weirdness The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. —Coco Chanel

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you.

Men are not potatoes!

Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.

A woman's flaming rights are whatever she flaming says they are." Uno laughed. "That's what women in Shienar say, anyway.

When you undress for bed, let yourself dance as if life pleases you, then apologize when you suddenly realize she is there and put yourself straight into your blankets. Can you blush?" A

But what Ramanujan wanted more, more than anything, was simply the freedom to do as he wished, to be left alone to think, to dream, to create, to lose himself in a world of his own making.

When you are trained to despise "just what you like" then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others—a good slave. When you learn not to do "just what you like" then the System loves you.

La avaricia es buena." Padre rico lo articuló de otra manera: "La culpa es peor que la avaricia porque la culpa le roba el alma al cuerpo." Pero creo que Eleanor Roosevelt lo expresó aún mejor: "Haz lo que tu corazón te diga que es lo correcto porque de todas formas te van a criticar. Mal si lo haces y mal si no lo haces.

the confidence to be true to who I am.

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life, declared Anne. I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads.

She brushed the old years and habits and inhibitions away from her like dead leaves. She would not be littered with them.

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

But what is the use of being an independent old maid if you can't be silly when you want to, and when it doesn't hurt anybody? A person must have some compensations.

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads. I know Matthew gave me as much love with them as ever went with Madame the Pink Lady's jewels.

This is my night for being Betty, because I love everything in the world tonight. I was Elizabeth last night, and tomorrow night I'll probably be Beth. It all depends on how I feel.' ... 'How very nice to have a name you can change so easily and still feel it's your own.

If you please, Great-Aunt Nancy, said Emily deliberately, I don't like to be told I look like other people. I look just like myself.

Well, I don't want to be any one but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life.