Quotes About Self-expression

Sometimes when I speak, I feel like I'm writing dialogue for the character of myself. I'm impersonating a normal human when really I'm a confused freak.

I bet things would be easier for you if you either realized you're not that weird or decided that being weird isn't bad.

as if there's a clear distinction between real and fake for any of us. Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?

Oh come on—as if there's a clear distinction between real and fake for any of us. Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. [ The New Statesman , February 25, 1933]

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside.

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.—Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

if you want to make a vivid statement about yourself, say you are kiya—arising only!

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to excel, to win.

Try your best to develop an ability to let others look into your head and heart. Learn to make your thoughts, your ideas, clear to others, individually, in groups, in public. You will find, as you improve in your effort to do this, that you—your real self—are making an impression, an impact, on people such as you never made before.

He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

I will go to the bank by the wood, and become undisguised and naked;

he cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one

A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.

The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself, and makes one.

Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked; Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not, I will say what I have to say by itself, I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call, I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States, I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States

The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right, Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear, Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak, Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts, First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo, Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out the sun.

I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place.