Quotes About Self-expression

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path toward the life we feel we ought to be living?

Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

Tulip looks beautiful. More importantly, she looks happy! And she's living her life as she chooses.

Don't let yourselves get caught up in someone else's story. Stick to your own tale, my darlings. Write your own ending

Don't let yourselves get caught up in someone else's story. Stick to your own tale, my darlings. Write your own ending if you need to.

Distinguish yourself. [Mama] wanted me to be more like her. But Papa had always wanted me to be my own woman. He wanted me to distinguish myself from my mother.

I do know! I'm a guy! I act that way because it's what I am! A cool, strong man... That's my dream!

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

As you learn to be true to yourself, you will find that you attract people, work, and other circumstances that reflect your evolution and development.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine." "Bayern's Own? But you're a child." Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.

If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.

Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men?

Razo wasn't good at anything except maybe cramming two cherries up one nostril.

No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Maybe T-shirts should stick to something obvious, like i'm a girl or 80% water or likely to breathe.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

She read it over one last time, not really satisfied, but it was the truth. Even if it still had some scratch-outs.

I don't know if I could do it, actually—aim my right hook at my mother's little glass jaw, and follow through, reckless to express myself

If I had to see my face while I am writing this, I would not write it. When I was a child, I was encouraged to speak from behind a tree as if I were the tree, or speak as if up from out of the ground, or, as a white adult, to speak out from within a white adult—how easy that has made my life is almost invisible to me.

No such thing as too tall," she said. She had automatically reached for a brush and now she began uncoiling the tangles of my hair. "It's good for a woman to be able to look into a man's eyes. Then she's not afraid to tell him what she thinks.

I am not like other women. I do not like the things they like or feel the things they feel. And it is better so. I do not want to be like them. I do not want to turn into one of them.