Quotes About Self-expression

no creo que podamos vivir sin imitar a otros, sin querer ser otros.

I tako, što više bojim, ja kao da svijetu kazujem budi i svijet biva iz moje boje krvi. Onaj koji ne vidi, taj pori?e, ali mene ima svuda.

wir wären die Dichter unseres eigenen Lebens, wenn wir erst in den Zeitungen schrieben, was uns geschehen wird, und dann staunend die schönen Dinge erleben, die wir verfasst haben

Shakespeare says: God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.

I never really had anybody who followed me. Never wanted them. That's the thing, I guess, that set me apart from the rest of the Jeesh—I was the only one who didn't wish I were Ender.

I don't understand people who don't like their pictures taken," said Spunky. "If you can go out in public wearing your face, then how can it bother you for somebody to take a picture of that face?

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Well, at least she's asserting herself, and you don't have to worry about her having 'squelched girl syndrome,' " she said. Mary Clare ignored that.

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am? I'd very little to do with it.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

For far too long she'd made herself small, made herself fit into their world.

Was waren sie doch alle für Schauspieler! Alle, wie sie dastanden. Aber was spielten sie? Das, was die anderen sehen wollten? Das, was sie selbst gern sein wollten?

Then he notices, he's a he again. Why not. Gender is just a slider.

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.