Best self & expression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.”

Ideas Self Religion Attitude Creation Expression Infinite Mere Individuality Endless Variety Poetry Is Self Expression

Book:Tagore

Source: Tagore

“If you copy then it is not self-expression.”

Ifs Self Expression Copies Self Expression

Author:Michael Schenker

“Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.”

“If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.”

Ifs Self Voice Expression Buddhism Conscious Within You Dig Deep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.”

People Self Seems Missing Expression Concerned Individuality Pursue Sense Of Humor Self Expression Identification

Author:Walter Lippmann

“... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.”

Men Self Helping Feelings Lasts Spirit Girl Actors Given Wish Boys Missing He Man Expression Listening Men And Women Seats Gestures Fellowship Gallery Boy And Girl

Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske

“Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.”

Thinking World Art Self Artist Consciousness Expression Active Contemporary Works Of Art Ongoing Self Consciousness Nihilist

Author:Leonard Baskin

“I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.”

Kind Long Self Dream Culture House Expression Connections Ultimate Be Kind American Dream Consumerism

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that they are what they are. Then accept that they constitute what you've believed until now, and that you can transform them into beliefs that allow you to fully express who you really are. Without judgment, patiently begin working to change subconscious and limiting beliefs into true expressions of your authentic self.”

Self Light Belief Accepting Expression Judgment Adults Setting Settings Acknowledge Subconscious Default Authentic Self Belief In Self Limiting Beliefs

Author:Sue Thoele

“If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.”

“Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.”

Writing Self Taught Expression Insight Mysterious

Author:William Hughes Mearns

“the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.”

Self Society Expression Tendencies Wholeness Assertive

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.”

Self Voice Natural Music Expression Jazz Here And Now Self Expression

Author:Stephanie Mills

“The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.”

May Self Interest Economic Expression Type Capitalism Mere Greed Range Petty Self Interest Admirable Self Expression Economic Systems

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.”

Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill

“Self-education only produces expressions of self.”

Self Education Produce Expression Self Education

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.”

Self Painting Expression Self Expression

Author:Mark Rothko

“I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.”

Writing Self Childhood Expression Great Love Self Expression Music Love New Experiences

Author:Edgar Winter

“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.”

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

Self Expression Self Love Simplicity Vanity Offensive Frankness

Book:Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804

Source: Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804

“Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.”

Self Honest Expression Mma Self Expression Self Actualization Actualization

Author:Bruce Lee

“For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.”

People Needs Mean Self Audience Share Fashion Expression Clothes Self Expression

Author:Anna Dello Russo

“While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.”

Needs Self Creativity Expression Expectations Self Expression

Author:Lauren Mackler

“In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.”

Children Soul Self Expression Shapes Myth Greek Poetic Self Expression

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?”

Knows Feels Self Together Hate Song Strong Grows Rocks Particular Expression Involved Band Elements I Hate Self Expression Guitarist Rock Bands Strong Together

Author:David First

“The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we can answer 'yes' to the question. 'Is my self-worth as strong as my self-critic?' then we are ready to engage our creative expression.”

Ifs Ideas Self Moving Individual Strong Answers Creativity Creative Fields Ready Expression Critics Self Worth Creative Expression My Self Worth Moving Out

Author:Angeles Arrien

“Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.”

Art Self Play Together Grows Land Expression Instruments Bread Factories Integration Farming Harmonious Self Expression

Book:The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

“Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.”

Art Self Known Creativity Expression Height Reaching Censorship Great Art Self Expression Brake Unwelcome Self Censorship

Author:Semir Zeki

“For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.”

Ifs Self Artist Values Creative Expression Products Fame Enjoyed Vans Self Expression Composing Complement Composing Music

Book:What Price Fame?

Source: What Price Fame?

“Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.”

Should Art Self Form Song Freedom Creative Expression Breaths Baths Self Expression Refreshing Impulsive Sketching

Author:Mervyn Levy

“In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.”

Self Expression Photography Ideals Tradition Instruments Sufficient Aesthetic Vehicle Self Sufficient

Book:Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms

Source: Moholy-Nagy, photographs and photograms

“In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”

People Self Lasts Social Poor Situation Produce Expression Resources Capacity Chaos Desperate Rebellion Existential Sensibility Poor People Resorts Avenues

Book:The Cornel West Reader

Source: The Cornel West Reader

“Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.”

“There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.”

Ifs Should Writing Persons Self Enough Expression Reader Aim Seven Patient Self Expression

Book:The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature

Source: The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature

“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.”

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

Self Character Enemy Expression Self Expression Personal Freedom

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.”

Source: Darkness and the light

“Every act is an expression of one's self.”

Self Action Expression

Author:Eiji Yoshikawa

“To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.”

Made Self Stories Half Consciousness Conditions Expression Historical Satisfaction Impulse Personal Life Erotic Psychoanalysis Self Consciousness Half The Story

Author:Ellen Willis

“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.”

Ifs Way Mean Self Desire Values Objects Expression Fit Integrity Diversity Connections Sacred Oneself Sexuality Honestly One Way Impulse Recognizing Arena Orientation Misused

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.”

Art Self Purpose Expression Glory Art Is Sake Threatening Glory Of God Self Expression True Purpose Purpose Of Art

Author:Philip Graham Ryken

“No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

May Art Self Philosophy Earth History Expression Claims Pearls Self Expression Oysters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.”

“I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.”

People Ifs Mind Looks Kind Self Might Acting One Thing Dog Expression Industry Directors Surprise Obedient Self Expression Service Industry

Author:Michael Shannon

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