Quotes About Self-expression

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us—don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!

Donot imitate others because it damages your personality.

The more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom.

The suit was a disguise, which I had put on for the first time in six months, after stuffing my torn leather jacket and denims into a dustbin.

I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

I'm talking about the lie that says you have to live a proper life, or else you'll be ruined. I worked so hard to be respectable, because I was afraid of what would happen.

Just being myself made me terribly sad.

Everyone lives the way she knows best.

Es decir, que por fin habían aflorado los colores de mi personalidad, como le suele ocurrir a cualquier que ha estado sometido durante mucho tiempo a cierta formación

Es decir, que por fin habían aflorado los colores de mi personalidad, como le suele ocurrir a cualquiera que ha estado sometido durante mucho tiempo a cierta formación

Asked about my technique, I grow evasive. I'm not aware I have any.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Don't silent your heart. Make a date and show up.

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen

playing small as they say nowadays, afraid of making others uncomfortable.

She'd never learned to censor herself.

This is your space to do with as you please, a playground where you can create the game with all its rules without compromise—one of the perks of living alone.

An artist produces for the liberation of his soul If he is successful, in the end, he will draw a complete picture of himself. —SOMERSET MAUGHAM

You must get hurt a lot," he murmured. She looked at him in surprise. "Why do you say that?" "Because you don't hide anything. You put yourself out there for the world to like or dislike.

If you like what you do, then own it," he said. "Be whoever you want to be. The worst thing is trying to be someone you're not.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Everything we do tells something about us.

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.