Quotes About Self-expression

Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

Go with your bad self.

The day I start hanging out with that bunch of half-starved mix-n-match sluts will be the day I crawl up my own ass and die!

Their rule is 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day will, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally "being lived." They are acting out the scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Instead of living out of the scripts given to me by my own parents or by society or by genetics or my environment, I will be living out of the script I have written from my own self-selected value system.

embryonic freedom day after day will, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally "being lived." They are acting out the scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see...

Sólo hay una manera de evitar la crítica: no hacer nada, no decir nada, y no ser nada. ARISTÓTELES, FILÓSOFO

I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.

Albert Einstein said there comes a time in life when you must stop reading other people's books and start writing your own.

we ourselves do that each day. We use our crayons (our imagination) to scare ourselves instead of to create.

Personality freezes us in a safe and secure pattern of being that we probably finished making up somewhere in junior high school. Most of our "permanent" personality was shaped from fear: fear of embarrassment, fear of losing face, fear of appearing uncool.

T]he term 'I' … must … be used … in order for us to talk with one another. But it's not a very accurate term.

Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.

No, no, I could never be a woman. I'd just stay at home and play with my breasts all day.

meaning is about expressing rather than satisfying the self: it is enhanced by activities that define the person and build a reputation.

meaning is about expressing rather than satisfying the self:

Also, people single out freedom as a component of a meaningful life, whether or not it leads to a happy life.11 Like Frank Sinatra, they may have regrets, they may take blows, but they do it their way.

They use the franchise as a form of self-expression: they vote for candidates who they think are like them and stand for their kind of people.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.