Quotes About Self-expression

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

But what if instead of trying to be nice, we respond authentically? What would that look like? For one, people would know where we really stand on the issues that are important to us. In addition, we would have more time to focus on making a difference and advancing our careers instead of trying to please other people.

And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.

And when I stood there, high over everything, and was hanging the wreath over the vane, I said to him: Hear me now, thou Mighty One! From this day forward, I will be a free builder—I too, in my sphere—just as thou in thine. I will never more build churches for thee—only homes for human beings.

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

Men Det maa ei hviskes stille. Sandheds Ven ei blot maa ville. Vær i Et og Alt dig Selv! Det er Sejrens Kunst, min Sjel! Som Stefanen mellem Stene maa du staae, om selv alene.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

side. "I'm going to be the best bookmark that ever held a place in a book. Look out, world, here comes Hank." Oh, and by the way, about the tuna casserole: If you ever see even a glop of it on your plate, change plates. I didn't, and my tongue is still not talking to me.

Que ellos vivan como quieran y yo viviré también como me plazca. No puedo ser sino como soy. No es eso lo que quiero, no, no es eso...

I'm blackening pages, but I don't know if it's writing.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Darling stop being philosophical, it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

everyone is born unique but most of us die copies.

What lies behind us and what lies before us, are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~