Quotes About Self-expression

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sózinho.

Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada Teu exagera ou exclui. Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és No mínimo que fazes. Assim em cada lago a lua toda Brilha, porque alta vive. To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

É preciso que todos os que lidam comigo se convençam de que sou assim, e que exigir-me os sentimentos, aliás muito dignos, de um homem vulgar e banal, é como exigir-me que tenha olhos azuis e cabelo louro.

Why try to be like others if you're condemned to being yourself? Why laugh if, when you laugh, even your genuine happiness is false, since it is born of forgetting who you are? Why cry if you feel it's of no use, and if you cry not because tears console you but because it grieves you that they don't?

I've created various personalities within. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incarnated in another person, who is then the one dreaming it, and not I.

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes. In these moments my heart beats faster because I'm conscious of it.

Most men spontaneously live a fictitious, alien life. Most people are other people, said Oscar Wilde, and he was quite right.

The truly superior (and the happiest) men are those who, perceiving that everything is a fiction, make up their own novel before someone else does it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly robes in order to write in secret.

Only people who wear clothes find the naked body beautiful. The overriding value of modesty for sensuality is that it acts as a brake on energy.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself.

Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command when they express themselves.

To be published = the socialization of the self. What a base necessity!

L?udat fie Domnul pentru faptul c? nu sunt bun, Åži c? am egoismul natural al florilor Sau al râurilor ce îÅŸi urmeaz? calea Preocupate f?r? s?-ÅŸi de-a seama Doar s? înfloreasc? sau s? curg? la vale. Iat? singura misiune pe-aceast? lume, Asta ÅŸi numai asta- adic? a exista cât se poate de clar, Åži a ÅŸti s? o faci f?r? s? te gândeÅŸti c? exiÅŸti.

El río de la posesión Que todos somos diferentes es un axioma de nuestra naturaleza. Sólo nos parecemos de lejos, en la medida, por tanto, de que no somos nosotros. La vida es, en fin, para los indefinidos; sólo pueden convivir quienes nunca se definen, y son nadie los unos para los otros.

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.

M? întind cât sunt eu de lung în iarba p?mântului Åži uit tot ce alÅ£ii m-au înv??at. Înv???tura nu mi-a Å£inut niciodat? nici de cald,nici de frig. Cele despre care mi s-a spus c? exist? nu au modificat vreodat? forma care sunt. Ceea ce am fost înv??at s? v?d nu a atins niciodat? ochii mei.

Teu vestido porque é teu, Não é de cetim nem chita. É de sermos tu e eu E de tu seres bonita.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

June Star said her hair was naturally curly.

I am not a warthog from hell.

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that's when my fan base really started to grow.