Quotes About Self-expression

I would rather be a mediocre writer than a bad actress.

Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long.

Face it, kid: unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long. You've got to be able to talk. That's tough. But spend your nights learning, so you'll have something to say.

That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was an infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

He was always saying how his mother said, 'What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a women is is the place the arrow shoots off from,' until it made me tired. That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing i wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots of from. I wanted change and exitement and to shoot off in all directions myself

These conversations I had in my mind usually repeated the beginnings of conversations I'd really had with Buddy, only they finished with me answering him back quite sharply, instead of just sitting around and saying, I guess so.

Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibilityto be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

I want to be important, by being different. & these girls are all the same

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Face it, kid: unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long.

I felt if I didn't write nobody would accept me as a human being. Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing and love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters. Besides, those little shorthand symbols in the book my mother showed me seemed just as bad as let t equal time and let s equal the total distance.

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world

I love you because you are me … my writing, my desire to be many lives. I will be a little god in my small way.

A real self, as we know, is a rare thing. The direct speech of a real self is rarer still. Where a real self exists it reveals itself, as a rule, only in the quality of the person's presence, or in actions

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

Even today, after all that has happened, I keep this scarf wrapped around my hair because of men's interest in me. It is not because of faith any more; I still believe in Allah, don't misunderstand me, but I do not think Allah is a fashion designer. He observes people's hearts, not their clothes.

Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Tris: What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves? Rosethorn: Ask me if I care what you want.

There were real advantages to having a father who didn't care what she did. But if the advantages were so wonderful, why did she feel like crying?

On the outside, the pony insisted. Not inside. Inside you're People.

Daine: Master Stefan?...D'you ever want to run with the herd? To just--be a horse? Do what the herd does Stefan: Course I do,..Don't everybody? Daine: What keeps you from doing it? Stefan: He rubbed his strawlike hair. I'm a man. I can't be runnin' with the herd, now can I?