Quotes About Self-expression

Let your barbaric yop be heard through the rooftops!

Kurayakan diri, kunyanyikan diri, Apa yang kusangka akan kau sangka, Untuk tiap atom milikku ialah juga milikmu. (Walt Whitman)

poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.

NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.

Only in the eleventh paragraph, at the end, did he add that he was also an artist. "Likewise in painting, I can do everything possible," he wrote.

He said that a men's work cloths are the only real cloths he has.

Don't be a yellow starburst be a pink one.

I like it when people say, 'Gee, that's a pretty good-looking painting.' But it's my painting, and when somebody says, 'Why don't you use more red instead of blue?' Good-bye. It's my painting. And I don't care what they sell it for. The painting itself will never be finished. That's one of the great things about it.

Be exposed. Be open. Be who you want to be. It will never hurt as much as starving your own humanity of oxygen.

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

What is clear to me today is that I must ignore the opinions and advice of others when they interfere with my own inner knowing. It is enough for me to know that I have a song, and by God, I intend to sing it.

You don't have to be just like everybody else … there is another way.

Give up having to have a reason for everything you do. When someone asks you why, remember that you don't have to come up with a reasonable answer that will satisfy them. You can do what you decide just because you want to.

It's easy to use the label as justification for remaining the same. Sören Kierkegaard wrote, "Once you label me, you negate me." When the individual must live up to the label

Deixe de procurar uma resposta numa existência de regras e tradições. Entoe seu próprio cântico de felicidade da maneira que você escolher, sem pensar em como se esperaria que ele fosse.

Si sigues al rebaño acabarás pisando excrementos».

There is no percentage in rebelling just for the sake of rebelling, but there are great rewards in being your own person and living your life according to your own standards.

Recognize your desire for privacy and not having to share everything you feel and experience with someone. You are unique and private. If you feel you must share everything then you are without choice, and of course, a dependent.

Listen to your inner callings, ignore how others might want to direct your life energies, and allow yourself to radiate outward what you feel so profoundly and deeply within you.

individuals, he believed, should choose and pursue what matters to them.

false self, co-dependent self, unauthentic or public self.

Our Real Self is spontaneous, expansive, loving, giving, and communicating. Our True Self accepts ourselves and others. It feels, whether the feelings may be joyful or painful. And it expresses those feelings. Our Real Self accepts our feelings without judgment and fear, and allows them to exist as a valid way of assessing and appreciating life's events.

We don't have to do anything to be our True Self. It just is. If we simply let it be, it will express itself with no particular effort on our part. Indeed, any effort is usually in denying our awareness and expression of it.