Quotes About Self-expression

I'm going to be my own kind of princess -Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon)

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

Sometimes people say to me, "I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt to my parents," and so on. I say to them, "There is no excuse. If you want to write, write. This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait. Make the time now, even if it is ten minutes once a week.

I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.

And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.

the back of every word we write is no word. Only because no word exists is there space enough to write some word. So when we write about our feelings and perceptions, it is writing practice when we also touch the place where there are no feelings, no perceptions, there is no you, no person doing any writing. In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to "prove" our worth but to live our possibilities.

you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.

If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

I'm not a cat. And I'm not gonna turn into one even if you hug me . . . I was born like this.

Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.

I was like a woman walking through an enchanted world to which she did not belong. She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.

Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

If you make your own rules in life, rather than going by those laid down by others, you find that it becomes a lot more enjoyable.

If you want to live life exactly the way you want to, rather than following convention, then you've got to defy convention to finance that lifestyle.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

My private affairs are no concern of society's. Conventions are only made to be broken. Why shouldn't I have my own way of breaking them?