Self Expression Quotes
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![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
![Harvey Fierstein](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206735024i/4775._UX200_CR0,10,200,200_.jpg)
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
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![Ansel Adams](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208163399i/12115._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
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![Sigmund Freud](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1406688955i/10017._CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
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“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
― Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within
― Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within
![Martha Graham](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208787381i/47790._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
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![Ansel Adams](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208163399i/12115._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
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![Stephanie Perkins](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1407443106i/3095893._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.”
― Lola and the Boy Next Door
― Lola and the Boy Next Door
![Haruki Murakami](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615497402i/3354._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.”
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
― Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling”
― Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within
― Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within
![Criss Jami](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
![Mahatma Gandhi](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1356810912i/5810891._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
― The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
― The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
![Aldous Huxley](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547138835i/3487._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.”
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![Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1393555704i/12080._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
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![Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1393555704i/12080._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”
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![Jack Kerouac](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1544568646i/1742._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.”
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![Hélène Cixous](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1679773572i/88674._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
― The Laugh of the Medusa
― The Laugh of the Medusa
![Aesop](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1219179559i/12452._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
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![Ansel Adams](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208163399i/12115._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
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![Zadie Smith](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1478188567i/2522._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception.”
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![Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1393555704i/12080._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
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