Quotes About Self-expression

IF you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men—you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write only for yourself you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted you will wish that you were dead.

The more perfectly we are ourselves the more we are able to contribute to the good of the whole Church of God.

Don't commit original sin. Try and let her just be.

his habits and appearance required strangers to alter their conception of an aristocrat to one who can afford to be himself.

Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Denying so much repressed rage requires tremendous energy—energy that could be used to create an authentic and exciting life.

Once you start living according to other people's rules, going along with what other people think, your soul shrivels and dies.

3.Get to know all the different parts of yourself. Psychologically as well as physically, each of us is made up of many different pieces; we are human jigsaw puzzles.

When a woman changes her hair what she's really saying to fate is, no. I refuse to be defined by those terms.

When we're misunderstood and judged unfavorably, what good does it do to defend or explain ourselves?

I have to write. It's not an option. When I write, I am literally building myself a place in which to live. Once I'm firmly established within the narrative I pop awake in the morning and it's the first thing I think about. Not in an analytical way, as in "Oh, I haven't really reached the crisis point and it's already page 200—I'd better work on that." It's very much just running towards and into the place I most want to be.

To Thine Own Self Be True Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. —Johnny Depp actor

Success is doing what you want, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want. - Anthony Robbin

Even when they proclaimed themselves dupes and victims of consumer culture, women did not renounce makeup, for it had become a common language of self expression and self-understanding.

I wore a white tank and jeans, shooting for "sexy casual." Hoping it wasn't "left farmhouse, got lost.

When we buy into those limiting and marginalizing stories, our souls are in exile. We spend our days worrying about pleasing others rather than doing what's right for us—and, ultimately, what's right for our families, our community, and our world.

We're held hostage by the stories that other people write for us and about us. We don't stop long enough to question why the story was written and whose purpose it serves.

I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.

Almost all were total failures-they couldn't have been put on in the village hall for the author's friends. It wasn't a matter of lack of talent, but of miseducation. The authors of the pseudo-plays assumed that writing should be based on other writing, not on life. My play had been influenced by Beckett, but at least the content had been mine.

Laughter is a whip that keeps us in line. It's horrible to be laughed at against your will. Either you suppress unwelcome laughter or you start controlling it.

What others THINK you NEED to be or NEED to do is none of your business. Live your own truth without attachment to anything…