Quotes About Self-expression

There are nonbinary people, or enbys, who see gender as a spectrum—which it is—and want to express themselves anywhere along that spectrum as an act of freedom. Sometimes people call that genderfucking or genderqueer.

Do you have kids? Anna asks. I laugh. What do you think? It's probably a good thing, she admits. No offense, but you don't exactly look like a parent. That fascinates me. What do parents look like? She seems to think about this. You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that.

You can take the pink hair dye out of the girl, but you never lose those roots. I took another sip of the martini. You don't know me. At the end of the bar, the other customer lifted his face to Peter Jennings and smiled. Maybe, Seven said, but neither do you.

You're not hiding, but you're sitting in a gay bar at dinnertime. You're not hiding, but you're wearing that suit like it's armor.

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?

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

I was a shy kid and I was afraid what I said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever said anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me.

ByÅ'em zawsze wyró?niajÄ…cym siÄ™ nikim, którego bezwzglÄ™dnym ?yczeniem byÅ'o sta? siÄ™ niewyró?niajÄ…cym siÄ™ kimÅ›.

I could not heal my being with my doing. To be who I am is all that matters.

I know some people who are afraid to write a business letter because they will encounter and reveal themselves.

Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents and their friends wrote out for you.

John Cleese... he cannot sing and keeps a locked piano in his room to prove it.

When we wear our heart on our sleeve, nobody notices our great butts!

No man should wear his ex-girlfriends jeans.

No matter what they say about you, just be yourself.

Stop listening to people telling you who you should be. And stop listening to the people who are telling you you're not good enough to do the things that you want to do.

You have to stop caring about what other people think of you & be yourself! Sometimes you have to hide it all not let anyone know how you feel or what you think,you have to put a smile on your face & pretend everything is fine.

I do not care what they think. They can hate, judge, talk behind my back, try to step up they game. Although, one thing they can never do is get me to change. I am who I am, and the way I act, think, imagine, dream, dress, speak, love, look, and feel. Will always remain the same.

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

Allow yourself to really feel your feelings. It's okay to bare your soul, break down or cry. Because through that breakdown comes your breakthrough.

When I'm trusting and being myself...everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

People who strive for popularity tend to lack the strength inside to be themselves.

I'm sick of fake people.. be yourself I mean seriously.. We learned to be ourselves in like 1st grade SO GROW UP PEOPLE.

Why be fake? Just be yourself and maybe people will like you just as much.