Top 1200 Personal Expression Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Drag is all about self-expression; there's so many different angles you can take on it.

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

Do you know him well?" I ask.I am too curious; I always have been. "Everyone knows Four," she says. "We were initiates together.I was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." She scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "Nice of him." She gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. In a second, her serious expression is gone,but I still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of Four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.

Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.

I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning sun when we dwell upon our blessings rather than our disappointments. No matter how pessimistic one's view may become of the times and the seasons, we can always fall back on special friendship, on faithful, personal love, and on simple, true dealings in our own personal lives.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.

Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

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

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

There has never been even a hint of an expression of racism in the national team.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.

The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

I've always believed that makeup is a form of self-expression and there is no shame in experimenting with it.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression

I can be very stoic looking, that's just my facial expression. I don't smile a lot.

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.

Diligently practice identifying yourself as a limitless expression of an unliminted Universe.

American Sign Language requires a lot of facial and body expression.

When it comes to a woman's expression, I don't think there's anyone who did it better than Saroj Ji.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.