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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. — Maya Angelou
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. — William Arthur Ward
Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. — Nelson Mandela
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. — Bruce Lee
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. — Oscar Wilde
I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself. — Chet Baker
Your best work is your expression of yourself. — Frank Gehry
Expressing Yourself Through Art Quotes
Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear. — Kat Von D
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. — Russell Simmons
Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power. Learn your technique thoroughly, immerse yourself in it, and then just throw it all out the window, and express what you feel... and it will come through that you are a technician. — William Dobell
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication. — Emmanuel Jal
I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear. — Erin Heatherton
Not Expressing Yourself Quotes
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning. — Harvey Milk
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. — Leonardo da Vinci
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. — Bruce Lee
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. — Don Williams
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. — Rollo May
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe. — Deepak Chopra
Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress.
It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic setting, you get to know a lot about it, but typically, you can't express yourself well or have an interesting conversation with it. — Seymour Papert
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. — Oscar Wilde
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. — Kahlil Gibran
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. — James M. Barrie
Stop Expressing Quotes
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are. — Angie Stone
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing. — Charlotte Bronte
My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was stopped. When I expressed a desire to become a graphic designer, I was not stopped. — Stefan Sagmeister
I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - thing I had no words for.
The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened. — John Lennox
We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live. — Francis Chan
Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you. — Michael Beckwith
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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. — Kanye West
If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express. — Frederick Lenz
I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it. — Graham Nash
It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself. — Simone de Beauvoir
Express Yourself Quotes
Never dull your shine for somebody else. — Tyra Banks
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. — C. S. Lewis
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tears are words that heart can't express.
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. — Brian Tracy
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace
If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules. — Trent Reznor
I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to. — Kendrick Lamar
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. — Bruce Lee
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. — Gianni Versace
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. — Leonardo da Vinci
More Expressing Oneself Quotes
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson
Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it. — Rick Rubin
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. — Marlene Dietrich
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words "I did not have time".
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. — Jean Cocteau
It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do — Bruce Lee
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself. — Maria Sharapova
Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be. — Patricia Hampl
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice. — Hakim Bey
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. — Andre Gide
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art. — Leo Tolstoy
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul. — Vincent Van Gogh
I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation. — Quentin S. Crisp
Seeks to grow and improve oneself through creative activity, freely expressing one’s exuberant vitality, and through warm, supportive encouragement of others. — Stephen Arroyo
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought. — Asger Jorn
Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it. — Ai Weiwei
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent. — Andre Maurois
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it. — Eduardo Chillida
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience. — Berthe Morisot
One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing oneself to be run over. This is more than a play with words, it's fundamental. — Paul Virilio
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring. — Rachelle Lefevre
Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing, imagining some terrible tragedy. Worries are almost always expressed in the mind's ear, not its eye - that is, in words, not images - a fact that has significance for controlling worry. — Daniel Goleman
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose, having the perfect brushstroke. It's about expression of oneself, the things around you, and the emotions. I think expression is the one word that I would use, whether it's for sorrow, tragedy, joy, or even the need to express and be heard. — Charlie Albright
The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt. — Chogyam Trungpa
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself. — Peter Matthiessen
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion. — Isaac D'Israeli
Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words. — Paul Morabito
Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What? — Emily Carr
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction. — Paul Cezanne
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully. — Meher Baba
Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process. — Claes Oldenburg
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behaviour which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practising it. — Erich Fromm
One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in the Kosmos-the Universal Self, also known as God, Kami, or Brahma, or by many other names. — Yasuhiko Kimura
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire not to go where one has already been. — Gueorgui Pinkhassov
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases. — Sayings
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation. — Sayings
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
To live is to express oneself freely — Bruce Lee
You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence. — Arthur Koestler
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself. — Helen Vendler
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language. — Erich Maria Remarque
Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and often in contradiction to one's socialization. […] This indicates that some aspects of feminine verbal and aesthetic expression precede and/or supersede gender socialization. — Julia Serano
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