Quotes About Self-expression

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Life isn't about how popular you are... What girl or boy you are dating or who you know. Life is about always being true to who you are or what you believe in. Never let anyone convince you that their way is better than your way. In the end all we have is our hearts... and our minds. This is the reason why we sing... this is the reason why we cry... this is why we live.

She had on men's clothes—the hat, britches, shirt, boots, even a six-gun she wore on her hip. It had never bothered her before Rylan Carstens. She wiped her eyes. It was sure enough bothering her now.

It's hard to think of you as a Margaret. Maizy suits you." "I doubt I'd answer to anything else." Maizy smiled as she adjusted the cloth.

Now is not the time for my attitude to come out of hiding.

I was afraid of all the lost choices I would never be able to make, and that for the rest of my life someone would always be telling me what to do or say or think, even when I had better ideas of my own. I was afraid of never being anything but what suited others and being pushed and prodded until I fit the mold they shoved me into and I forgot who I was and what I wanted.

This life was a dream of my own making, one where my imagination was my only boundary. It was a life that I alone commanded.

Being like everyone else is highly overrated.

I suppose," he thought, "it is not good for me to flower as the other plants. If I began like them I should probably end like them, and I feel that I could not be satisfied with that. After all, one should not try to be so much like others, but to be the very best of one's own sort.

I've been called many things in my life, but never a sacrificial penguin.

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

One exercises to be a whole man, not a creature bred like a plough-ox to do one thing.

Just as one would never attempt to turn a sports car into a utility truck, it is also critical to avoid the mistake of telling a child who is temperamentally intense, energetic, and sensitive not to be any of those things.

I learned very early to choose my lines carefully. I still have a terrible habit, when people pause too long between words, of feeding them their line. I know my lines in advance. I dress for occasions, for personae. There are women in my closet, hanging on my hangers, a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.

I will eat what I want and look as I please and laugh as loud as I like and use the wrong fork and lick my knife.

I tried to be what you wanted me to be But you didn't want a girl you wanted MACHINE ... I can't be part of this machine I got too much heart to keep it in I can't be part of your machine I promise this is not the end

To fully express the true self is at best a calculated risk.

What's your name?" "Cassawoof," she said with pride. "Nice name! I'm Simon.

If you always utter vulgar words or words that pierce others' hearts, hurt them, or cause them to suffer, nobody will. Even your parents and friends who love you would hesitate to do so. Not even one of the words you have uttered will sell; your energy will run low and become negative; you will become poor; and you won't be able to continue to live. This is how you torture yourself with your own words.