Self Expression Quotes

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I want the world to see my body.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.Always do what you are afraid to do.

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

Do your work, but do your thing.

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, "Hey, listen to me." Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

When you freely express, you are the total style.

I want to go on living even after my death,And therefore I am grateful to GodFor giving this gift...Of expressing all that is in me.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel... A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.