Quotes About Self-expression

What I can't figure out is why you gotta make yourself crackers trying to be somebody you can't ever be instead of just letting yourself be the one and only Evie O'Neill.

Sinjin was sitting bare-chested with Petra's blue feather boa wrapped around his neck and draped over his shoulder. His long dark curls had been teased and sprayed into a sexy mane. Heavy black eyeliner rimmed his eyes. "Am I not gorgeous? I want to snog myself. I'm like a postmodern Lord Byron." "You put the ironic in Byronic," Petra quipped. "Well said, luv.

But she wasn't sure she wanted the responsibility of loving anyone right now. The truth was, she was afraid that when she fell hard for a boy, she'd lose herself along the way. She'd seen it happen to lots of girls. They'd go from drinking gin, driving fast card and boldly shimmering in speakeasys, to these passive creatures, who couldn't make a move without asking their beaus if it would be okay. Evie had no intention of fading behind any man.

The citizens rise and wash, shave and brush. They don stockings and dresses, pants, shirts, and suspenders. They button up their need. Affix their aspirations. Tuck histories neatly inside drawers, creating themselves as they go, a rhapsody of reinvention.

Next I know, I'll be calling myself the queen of Romania and wandering down the lane wearing my bed linens for a cape.

Oh, Evie, you're too much,' people said, and it wasn't complementary. Yes, she was too much. She felt like too much inside all the time.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Kamu harus menjadi pribadi yang kamu inginkan, bukan pribadi yang diinginkan orang lain.

Life would be only what they chose to make it, grappling within the straitjacket of society

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.