Quotes About Self-expression

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

Azhar Usman is very funny, deeply spiritual, and extremely hairy. He's like Zach Galifianakis meets Deepak Chopra-and funnier than you'd expect that combination to be.

Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.

Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit... Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.

Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted! Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted? Skies are blue inside of you, The weather's always fine; For There ain't no Bottle in all the world Like that dear little Bottle of mine.

Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

Iadul este incapacitatea de a fi altul decat fiinta pe care o descoperi actionand zilnic in numele tau.

what would it be like if I could, if I were free

There was something called liberalism (...) Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.