Quotes About Self-expression

Esential este sa te asiguri ca omul pe care il accepti alaturi de tine nu decide cine esti si nu te tintuieste ca pe un fluture intr-un insectar.

I don't want to make polite conversation with neighbours, to explain myself. I don't want to be judged for what I did.

live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirrelled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

Once upon a time there was a small-town girl who lived in a small world. She was perfectly happy, or at least she told herself she was. Like many girls, she loved to try different looks, to be someone she wasn't. But, like too many girls, life had chipped away at her until, instead of finding what truly suited her, she camouflaged herself, hid the bits that made her different. For a while she let the world bruise her until she decided it was safer not to be herself at all.

Push yourself. Don't settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride.

In the meantime, put on some really great shoes with that jacket and a red lipstick and let Simon Stockwell know you're not to be messed with.

But you can tell so much about someone from what they wear.

Wear those stripy legs with pride.

Nothing is so unimpressive as behavior designed to impress

You have to be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

Being able to use the word "geek" has helped me a lot to define myself, but not as a mold for me to fit myself into, as a template to help accentuate my differences.

Write each day as if no one will see it, yet write in a way as if the whole world will see it.

We're creating a culture where people feel constantly surveilled, where people are afraid to be themselves.

The unfortunate, truly exciting thing about your life is that there is no core curriculum. . . . So don't worry about your grade or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

Are you worried you're not like everyone else? Your worries will only worsen when you find that the path to conformity is different for each person.

Stående i kalsongerna mitt på golvet i sitt gamla pojkrum, med ansiktet svullet av gråt och brist på sömn och med rösten darrande av rädsla och beslutsamhet. "Jag är homosexuell. Så. Nu vet ni.

I am America," Clay will proudly declare. "I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me

A Durkheimian society would value self-control over self-expression, duty over rights, and loyalty to one's groups over concerns for out-groups.

Focus on mastering the music as deeply as you can, and worry less—or not at all if it's possible—about impressing others

As soon as a new form of communication arises, people will find a way to use it to embarrass themselves. Call it Zuckerberg's Law.