Quotes About Self-expression

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them

Just so. I am what I am. To look for "reasons" is beside the point.

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car. I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never ask if he's right- or left-handed. After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...

Throw away the rule book and create your own.

But I've learned now that your hard work and dedication will pay off, if you dare to be different. Because why would I want to be anything other than myself?

When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.

I was once afraid of people saying, Who does she think she is? Now I have the courage to stand and say, This is who I am...