Quotes About Self-expression

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

The comment is abrupt, uncalled for, yet clearly important for him to get across, a way of naming himself, turning out his pockets, the way others let on in a hurry that they know Christ, or where to get cocaine.

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough, to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

One doesn't become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It's to escape all that - to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to by others.

You worry about who you are too much. Just be yourself, and you'll find out eventually.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

To fulfill your purpose, you must first know and celebrate your identity!

Be You, they will adjust

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Feminism is about the freedom of women to be who they are without permission from society.

My body my mind the way I dress the way I walk the way I talk, mine all mine.

This has nothing to do with what anyone else in all the world would approve or forbid. This is all their own.

You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

The pictures are good, Toby. They're good. But this is the only way, no one'll ever look twice if they come from me, I went to art school—

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

the more turbulent the emotions expressed on paper, the greater the improvement in their immune function.

Silver" is what I called girls who were natural beauties but who also smoothed on a layer of pretty from a jar. It wasn't just how they looked, it was how they were. The name came from a song my mother sang sometimes when she was getting dressed to go out somewhere special. She sang along with Aretha Franklin at the end: "Sail on, silver girl… Your time has come to shine. All your dreams are on their way.

yellow frock with puffed sleeves and an empire waist had seemed elegant on the pattern envelope. She didn't care much for the finished product, but having spent too much time tracing the pattern and reinforcing buttonholes, she couldn't just throw it away because of a puckered neckline and an unflattering cut.

I needed her to say that it didn't make a difference, that I was myself, not my gnarled family tree.