Quotes About Self-expression

Te amo sin que hayan razones ni justificaciones de por medio. Te amo tal como eres y eres libre de ser tú mismo. Si no me gusta tu forma de ser, entonces será mejor que busque a alguien que sea como a mí me guste. No tenemos el derecho de cambiar a nadie y nadie tiene el derecho de cambiarnos a nosotros. Si cambiamos será porque nosotros queremos cambiar, porque no queremos seguir sufriendo. La

Empezamos a actuar para intentar complacer a mamá y a papá, a los profesores y a la iglesia. Fingimos ser lo que no éramos porque nos daba miedo que nos rechazaran. El miedo a ser rechazados se convirtió en el miedo a no ser lo bastante buenos. Al final, acabamos siendo alguien que no éramos. Nos convertimos en una copia de las creencias de mamá, las creencias de papá, las creencias de la sociedad y las creencias de la religión.

Valódi éned még mindig kisgyerek, aki sohase nÅ' fel. Néha elÅ'bújik ez a kisgyerek, amikor örülsz vagy játszol, ha boldog vagy, ha festesz, verset írsz, zongorázol, vagy valamilyen egyéb formában fejezed ki magad. Ezek életed legboldogabb pillanatai - elÅ'bukkan valódi éned.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what. The

Imagine when we teach our children to be secure in themselves, and to have their own voice. Imagine how everything will change if we bring respect to any relationship.

Eventually we become someone that we are not. We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.

you were born to write your own story. Respect comes directly from love; it is one of the greatest expressions of love.

the result is: I am. I am what I am; you are what you are, and the complete acceptance of whatever you are is what makes the difference.

You are not afraid to ask for what you need, to say yes or no to anything or anyone.

We were brought into this world as authentic beings, and then we began to practice "who we are" until it became a mastery. At any stage in our adult lives we can unpractice; we can let go of our attachments to an identity . . . and we can be.

I've never understood what people mean when they say they have to find themselves. We know who we are. The hard part is being that person. It's always so much easier to be someone else.

OdczekaÅ' chwilÄ™, wiedzÄ…c, ?e nie ma takiej siÅ'y, która kazaÅ'aby tÅ'umowi zamilkn??, zanim nie wyrzuci z siebie wszystkiego, co ma na sercu, i nie zamilknie sam.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.

Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to her sheer essence (even with the risk that zero lurks at the bottom of the subtraction). Laura's method is precisely the opposite: in order to make her self ever more visible, perceivable, seizable, sizeable, she keeps adding to it more and more attributes and she attempts to identify herself with them (with the risk that the essence of the self may be buried by the additional attributes).

A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers

I'd never recited poetry to anyone before; I've never done it since. I have a highly sensitive, built-in fuse mechanism that keeps me from opening up too far, from revealing my feelings, and reciting poetry makes me feel as though I'm talking about my feelings and standing on one leg at the same time.

They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

The young can't help playacting; themselves incomplete, they are thrust by life into a completed world where they are compelled to act fully grown. They therefore adopt forms, patterns, models— those that are in fashion, that suit, that please—and enact them.

Qué había querido decirle con su regalo? Que fuera libre. Que viviera como quería vivir, que fuera a donde quería ir. El nunca se había atrevido. Por eso le había dado todos los medios a su hija para que ella se atreviera.

Todo depende de que el hombre sea tal como es, de que no se avergüence de querer lo que quiere y de desear lo que desea. La gente suele ser esclava de las ordenanzas. Alguien les ha dicho que deben ser de tal o cual manera y ellos tratan de ser así y jamás llegan a saber quiénes eran y quiénes son. Al final ya no son nadie ni nada. El hombre debe tener ante todo el valor de ser él mismo.

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