Quotes About Self-expression

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

This is my life, these are my songs, this is my time and I'm ready.