Quotes About Self-expression

It's hard to tell the truth sometimes, especially if you don't want to hurt someone. And you did. You said what you feel. And you must do what is right for you, not what other people say is right.

Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give to some people.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

A man doesn't wear a red cowboy hat.

A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

Sometimes you have to act a little crazy just to stay sane.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Kendini varolan? yenilemekle, betimlemekle ve yeniden üretmekle s?n?rlamamak, aksine henüz olmam?? olan? icat etmeyi ya da düÅŸlemeyi bilmek…

I pity you. All your life you are going to be paralyzed by What Is Done, by what people tell you you should think or do... The best thing that could happen to you would be for you to be uncomfortable once in a while.

who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud?

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I know what it feels like not to fit in, but trying to be like everyone around you doesn't work.

Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

I smile. But like anything you wear that doesn't fit, it pinches.

transgender?" "I like to think about it in terms of handedness," Dr. Powers explains. "If I asked you to sign your name with your nondominant hand, it would feel weird. If I asked you to describe it to me, you'd probably say things like the pen doesn't fit comfortably in my hand; or it's awkward; or I have to try hard to make legible something that I can do with my other hand effortlessly. It feels forced.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?

I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.

I used to have pink hair, I told Seven. I used to have a real job, he answered. What happened? He shrugged. I dyed my hair pink. What happened to you?

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

she never wore makeup—just those sharp features, take it or leave it.

If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you don't bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.

I had come to see a beautiful liberation in this new way of thinking—which was, ironically, not having to think for myself.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask...with nothing beneath it?