If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

We keep waiting to be crowned,Waiting for the world to judge us worthy of offering our brightest, most empowered and beautiful stuff. But that won’t happen. Your next certification or ordination or degree will do...

Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.

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.

This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride

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.

…And you see me now, the perfect incarnation of imperfection…

life is short” is such a cliche. And it’s true.In fact, we only have five minutes to be here. In the really big scheme of things, not even that long. We humans don’t even have...

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens...

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.

Bombs on my backpack lunchbox full of fivestar crackers pockets loaded with rockets im gonna spit fireworks explosive rhymes connected like judas belt here comes my ride a mother rocket fly so high reach and...

who”s on the planet you might have been? While this may seem like a bit of a paradoxi- cal tongue twister, it is the quintessential question that requires exploration if you are to follow your...

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion....

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...

Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.

Are you repeating someone else’s narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of...

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It’s a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

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...

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.

When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and...

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

Romantic EgoistNozomi: You’ve got an idea in your head… how you should act, but you can’t act like, so you stifle yourself and don’t even try.

The singing I like best is when I sing.

Beauty! Self-expression. Whatever you want to call it. You wait! She’ll turn on you some day. Some day you’ll want her, and she won’t be there.

When you have passion, you don’t need coffee.

When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be,...

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half...

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases...

Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods,She wears what No others dare

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I’m close.

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...

Writing is a mysterious activity.

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...

Only when I’m dancing can I feel this free.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be...

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.

Genocide of the soul occurs when everyone else expects conformity based on false beliefs, that we should all think the same, act the same and aspire to be the same.—Tammy Wooster