If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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...

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,...

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.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

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...

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

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

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

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about...

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don’t believe any...

Writer’s block is just another name for fear.

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

It was all in the means of expressing himself without anyone having to ever understand it.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope we will come to an understanding that the material used is...

What do you really want?Did you know that every single one of your desires is an expression of your soul’s longing to experience human life as you? It’s true.These pure impulses get filtered through our...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.