Quotes About Self-expression

Why you like this, huh? Why you always think you have to do things your own way? I ast your mama bout it one time, while you was in jail. What she say? ast Sofia. She say you think your way as good as anybody else's. Plus, it yours. Sofia laugh.

If my mind is crowded with ideas or thoughts or plans or other people's creations there is less room for my own.

It is a way of saying you must not live too much in your head. It is a way of reminding you to stay in your emotions, no matter how nutty they are; it is a way of saying, also, that craziness has value.

The challenge for me is not to be a follower of Something but to embody it;

And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.

She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something

They calls me yellow like yellow be my name They calls me yellow like yellow be my name But if yellow is a name Why ain't black the same Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game

Art isn't necessarily about beauty. Art is supposed to make you feel something. And I began to realize that my appearance is my art. My body, my face, my scars told a story. My story. - Ariel Henly

The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew... And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion.

increasingly women are buying stuff for themselves with their own money. They buy their own toys.

It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.

I'll get drunk & give no shit, & not be a Messiah. - New York to San Fran

He'd grown himself a little bit of a beard, just under his mouth, while he shaved the rest. Clover couldn't understand it. Grow it or don't, but why leave bits? It was like leaving your wife half-fucked.

Ultimately, you will create transparency. When how you appear is who you are, you are truly free.

El peor hábito que puedes eliminar es el de ser el mismo de siempre y el mejor que puedes adoptar es el de expresar lo divino a través de ti. En ese momento es cuando moras en tu naturaleza verdadera y en tu identidad. Cuando moras en el yo.

When your outward expression of self is equal to your inner self, you are headed to a new destiny.

His father had smashed his very first guitar for him, in an early attempt to rid Jude of his musical ambitions. Jude hadn't been able to repeat the act himself, not even onstage, for show, when he could afford all the guitars he wanted. He was, however, perfectly willing to use one as a weapon to defend himself. In a sense he supposed he had always used them as weapons.

If you can dream a thing, then it has a kind of reality in your thoughts. And if you dream hard enough, and have the right vehicle - a vehicle that you really love, a part of yourself - you can slip right out of reality and into that other, better, imaginary world, where the only reality is the one you allow.

La tua personalità non è solo ciò che sai di te stesso, ma anche quello che gli altri sanno di te. Sei una persona con tua madre, un'altra con il tuo amante e un'altra ancora con tuo figlio. Queste altre persone ti creano – ti completano – esattamente come tu crei te stesso. Quando non ci sei più, chi è rimasto continua a conservare le parti di te che ha sempre avuto con sé.

I was a shy kid and I was afraid what i said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever saud anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me.

I'm going to say my name is Dorothy Sherman and I'm telling it like it is. I'm going to say my friends call me Dot, and I prefer my enemies not to call me at all.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.