Quotes About Self-expression

Do what you love, Go where youre admired, not where youre tolerated. Be what you want to be not what others want you to be.

If you wish to be loved, give love a chance by constantly and consistently being yourself.

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.

We all have hearts to love, brains to think and souls to be. live your life in your own way and don't let others judge you. you are the only judge of your life!

There's no need to try and fit in. If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change. Be yourself, and someone will come into your life one day, not caring what other people think of you. They'll love you for who you are, not the person everyone else wants you to be.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalism and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

What you looking at is the only way I don't feel like being me is labor, like I holding myself together all the time.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.

Mucho antes de llegar a la adultez aprendí a comunicarme de una forma impersonal que no requería revelar lo que estaba sucediendo dentro de mí.

We were not meant to succumb to the dictates of should and have to, whether they come from outside or inside of ourselves. And if we do yield and submit to these demands, our actions arise from an energy that is devoid of life-giving joy.

I used a light hand with my makeup because I wanted to look good without looking like a good time.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.

Well, I ain't sayin' it only to hear myself talk.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.

ART had an alternate, more drastic plan that included giving me sex-related parts, and I told it that was absolutely not an option. I didn't have any parts related to sex and I liked it that way. I had seen humans have sex on the entertainment feed and on my contracts, when I had been required to record everything the clients said and did. No, thank you, no. No.

It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.

Words for Introverts to Live By Be playful. Take breaks. Appreciate your inside world. Be authentic. Enjoy curiosity.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. —Patricia Hampl S