Quotes About Self-expression

If you don't define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

I don't want to blend, " Etalon whispered. "I want to belong.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

God didn't put you in this world for you to be perfect, he put you in this world for you to be your self.

If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That's what's important.

Life will get much better when you stop caring about what everyone thinks, and start to actually live for yourself.