Quotes About Self-expression

Your purpose is to be yourself. You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are wonderful just as you are.

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

And where do you get off calling yourself practical? You're a writer.

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

When true love broke my heart in half, I took the whiskey from the shelf, And told my neighbors when to laugh. I keep a dog, and bark myself.

Love makes me naked; Propinquity's a harsh master; O the songs we hide singing to ourselves!

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to be yourself.

I don't want people to follow Scarface. I want people to follow Brad Jordan, man.

I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

I've been keeping a journal since I was in the seventh grade.

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

It's all being true to yourself, being genuine and being the most authentic version of yourself that you can be. I think that can lead to a really happy and joyous life.

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

A lot of people judge me because I like to, you know, look good, but I grew up in fashion.

I'm not a story; I'm a person, and my passion is music. And I want your passion to be my music - so, judge me on my music.

Being yourself, or being judged as yourself, is really scary.

People should be able to do what they want in life and not be judged or put in a box or a category.

As an artist, I struggle with how much of myself to give to the people. How much I want my personal business to be judged.

I like to wear whatever I like. I don't care about others' judgment or if it's right or wrong.