Quotes About Self-expression

Do something with your one life, instead of following others. While just watching your one life pass you by.

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it

Be as you are or be as you seen...no more, no less

While some people want to be popular, some of us simply want to be brave.

Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

Sometimes, just do what your mind tells you to do.Just don't care about people.Because, neither you can afford loosing that time nor people will care after sometime.So just be who you are.

Live your life as if everyone will discover what you do and who you are. If no one holds your secrets, there's nothing to compel you to male choices that are not your own.

What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?

Do not hide your light, let it shine.

Hiding your true nature is a kind of voluntary death.

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else's values. We must find our own.

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

Be Different Be unique. Be different. Stop following the crowd. Listen for the sound of that distant drum. The successful person and the average person approach life differently. The average person, it seems to me, likes to take the easy way out. It's almost as if the average person wants to get through work just to rush home to do very little, or nothing at all. Television

And the first thing I did, why, I bought myself a flaming-red dress and higheeled sequined shoes and everyone thought I was Real, and Miss Thing said, 'Hurray, honey! youve done it—stick to it

I want to tell you something before we leave. Im not at all the way you think I am. Im not like you want me to be, the way I tried to look and act for you: not unconcerned, nor easygoing—not tough: no, not at all.

All true? I think autobiographers are big liars.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own happiness in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. John Stuart Mill 1806-1873

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. It

He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation

Secondly, the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character; of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow; without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them even though they should think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.