Top 1200 Self-Expression Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

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

Good things will come from self-expression.

Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you.

Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

To me, even what the glossies would consider a fashion disaster are still self expression.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess.

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

So fashion for me is self-expression, it reflects how I'm feeling on a particular day.

Commerce is a powerful, underestimated form of expression. We use it to cast a vote with every product we buy. It's a direct expression of democracy. This is why our mission at Shopify is to protect that form of expression and make it better for everyone, not just for those we agree with.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.

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

My brand is about self-expression and doing things authentic to me and not to make money.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.

Love is mistranslated into sex, because sex is not an expression of love. Sex is an expression of physical activity. It can be an expression of love between two people in love, but it's a carnal expression.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. That's why I love trying out new things.

I actually think that self-expression comes, sometimes, from what you wear, and having the freedom to be able to wear whatever you want for whatever mood you want to wear it, but to not feel frivolous that all of those things that help you self-express have to be things that you're committing to forever.

People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.

Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

I don't like the term streetwear. It limits self-expression in my opinion.

I do love fashion as a mode of self expression, and I appreciate it for being wearable art.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. 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.

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

When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want to. Subconsciously or not, the figures I paint are a reflection of myself and whatever mood I am in at the time, so every painting is in essence a self-portrait.

Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one's true self.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things.

Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.