Quotes About Self-expression

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

Be real, rare, refreshing you! Fan the flames of self love and ignite your light!

When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.

i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.

Today is the perfect day to do something daring. Like just be yourself, for instance.

My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.

It's me being me making you be you...

Suppression or Invalidation of any innate expression of who or what I am is a crime against myself.

I would rather dance alone under the stars than spend a lifetime hiding behind the moon.

Today is the day I stand tall, strong, and mighty to tell the world who I am.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

In the end, it was one or the other—be myself, or please my father. I chose me. And loyalty to my real friends.

Honey?" she asks. "Don't call me that," I snap. "What? Honey?" she asks. "Yes," I snap again. "What do you want me to call you?" she asks, indignantly. "CEO?" She stifles a giggle. "Oh Christ." "No, really Patrick. What do you want me to call you?" King, I'm thinking.

We seem to have entered precariously into a kind of totalitarianism that actually abhors free speech and punishes people for revealing their true selves. In other words: the actor's dream.

there's no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

But maybe I was more like Lena Dunham on her TV series Girls, which examined her own generation with a caustic, withering eye yet also remained supportive. And this is crucial: you can be both. In order to be an artist, to raise yourself above the overreacting fear-based din in which criticism is considered elitist, you need to be both.

When I need somebeast to tell me m'name I'll jolly well ask m'self. Pish tush! The very idea, tellin' a chap his own moniker!

In almost any situation a client can ask me what to do and I can answer with "Be yourself. Tell the truth. The people who accept your truth are your people. The people who don't accept your truth aren't your people and that is OK." I

I had to let myself show, warts and all.

She became an obsessive runner and an anorexic. For nine years she barely ate. "When you have an inability to connect with people, and you feel shameful about yourself, the only power you have is over your own body. I couldn't speak up for myself, so this was the only way I could actually exert any influence over myself.

Ooh, go ahead and poke fun at my poor queenology, Canada boy.

Quanto mais eu penso no assunto, mais me dou conta de que nós, mulheres, fixamos modelos impossíveis para nós mesmas. Que tornamos a vida intolerável umas para as outras. Não consigo corresponder a nossos modelos, esposa mais velha. Por isso preciso criar meus próprios.

I've never been cool — and I don't care