Quotes About Self-expression

Y'know, swearing is just part of who we are – we're forever effing and blinding.

I hardly ever went to the AA [alcoholics anonymous] meetings. I've just never felt comfortable in those places. It's my worst zone. I'll get up and sing my heart out in front of two hundred thousand people at a rock festival, but when I've got to talk about the way I feel to people I've never met before, I can't do it. There's nothing to hide behind.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

Some may say that by being civil to each other we stifled our self-expression. But we can also say that we chose to express one part of ourselves rather than another. Although it may appear that we give up self-expression when we exercise it, in truth restraint can be as much an expression of our Selves as is unfettered behavior. Yes, practicing civility may limit our immediate gratification. That's why we are tempted to be rude (p.24).

Do we dare to be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

Se llamaba Antonio López Pérez, aunque le gustaba que oficialmente se le conociera como Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebr

Just be who you want to be not what others want to see

when it comes to being a writer: getting out of your own way, and getting rid of the countless negative thoughts that tell you what a hopelessly uninteresting specimen of humanity you are.

There is more to me than my boobs and my boyfriends.

My breasts have a career. I'm just tagging along.

People always tell me, "Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever." I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic. Except for the boobs.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement -- not to everyone else, more to myself.

I feel ... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien! I don't know what it is!

if you act (and dress) as if you have a fascinating inner life, you may soon find that you actually do—and that you feel more balanced as a result.

Just because we're living in the stickes doesn't mean we have to look like we belong here

Fundamentally, I've always been shy—an extroverted introvert,overcompensating with performative social-butterfly behavior.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring—and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Girls like me assumed we'd be judged and belittled, we expected girls to be sexualised and then condemned for their sexuality, punished for both silence and speaking out, told we should accept responsibility for our choices and then called crazy or stupid or slutty if we didn't live by the rules other people chose for us.

The first thing I did was dye my hair back to a Barbie platinum. (I'm a natural blonde, if you don't count hair color.)

The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim. And the converse is true as well: no reward anyone might give us could possibly be greater than the reward that comes from living by our own best lights.

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts. When teachers depend on the coercive powers of law or technique, they have no authority at all.