Top 73 Quotes About Express Ourselves
#1. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.
Tammy Baldwin
#2. We but half express ourselves, [155] and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. We must occasionally remind ourselves of our brief visit on this planet. Shouldn't we try to express ourselves clearly, make a personal stamp on our environment, and pay attention to the details that make the difference?
Charlotte Moss
#4. I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
Faith Prince
#5. The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#6. This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.
John Gimlette
#7. Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.
George Edward Woodberry
#8. The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves.
Miguel Ruiz
#9. I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.
Bob Hoskins
#10. We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
Piet Mondrian
#11. By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#12. Believe it or not, the number one fear in America remains public speaking. And, in some ways, I think that is a real shame because we are so blessed to live in a country where we are able to express ourselves, so we should want to do that.
Dana Perino
#13. Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#14. I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn't wear. We've all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.
Cate Blanchett
#15. My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.
Gabrielle Roth
#16. Every conversation does not have to be blatantly spiritual for God to make it positively effectual. Sometimes God gives us favor with people who are touched or impressed with how we express ourselves because God empowered our words even when the listener couldn't distinguish the difference.
Beth Moore
#17. At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
Betty Comden
#18. We were the two unlikeliest people to charm information out of someone. Stunted human beings who got awkward every time we tried to express ourselves.
Gillian Flynn
#19. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James Dean
#20. Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
Phyllis George
#21. We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves.
Jerry Pinkney
#22. Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
Octavio Paz
#24. We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Jack Prelutsky
#25. The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
Henri Matisse
#26. We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that's a beautiful thing. We're all trading off each other's culture, so no matter what lines you put-country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together.
Jay-Z
#27. The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.
Flemming Rose
#28. What is essential in prayer is not that we learn to express ourselves, but that we learn to answer God.
Timothy Keller
#29. Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery ...
Linda Evangelista
#30. For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
Billy Joel
#31. When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.
Andrew Schneider
#32. We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!
Lynn Johnston
#33. More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems of our selves, reminders of who we are or would like to be. Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
Seth
#34. Our goal, then, is not to eliminate the feelings of anger from our parental repertoire. We couldn't, even if we wanted to. Rather, it is to find ways to express ourselves when we are angry that do not hurt, insult, demean, or inspire revenge and rage in our children.
Nancy Samalin
#35. You have to not care whether they approve of your or not," she said when I called. "We do what we do to express ourselves, not to coincide with what others like. You're lucky if they like anything you do.
Debby Bull
#36. I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.
Sara Sheridan
#37. I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.
Harry Callahan
#38. In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves.
Pope Benedict XVI
#39. We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing We're constantly making mistakes. We're constantly trying to express ourselves and actualize our dreams.
Kanye West
#40. I'm from North Wales, where we express ourselves by throwing rocks at trees.
Lisa Kleypas
#41. I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.
Nick Kroll
#42. The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.
Marvin Ammori
#43. Kindness is the universal language of pure love, so let us express ourselves with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#44. We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.
Harry Triguboff
#45. The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.
Michael Josephson
#47. If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.
John Ruskin
#48. We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
Arthur Dove
#49. We are most fully ourselves when we admit that we are emotional beings, that we are defined by the ways we find though our behavior to express all these myriad emotions constantly bubbling beneath the surface of us as we try our fragile best to reason our way through the world.
Greg M. Epstein
#50. When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us.
Michael Josephson
#51. It takes great courage to accept the constant changes of the emotions within ourselves, and even more audacity to express them whenever they occur and without filter or delay.
Nityananda Das
#52. At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do.
It is all very simple.
Adyashanti
#53. We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves.
Shakti Gawain
#54. Whether you are Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative, we should never, never, never allow ourselves emotionally to interfere with another person's right to express themselves.
Charles B. Rangel
#55. We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
Tim Minchin
#56. Erotic role-play is a powerful sexual outlet which can orgasmically release us from the shackles of convention and normality to express a side of ourselves we otherwise would not have opportunity to convey.
Miya Yamanouchi
#57. I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#58. As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'
Tara Brach
#59. We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.
Mason Cooley
#60. When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#61. If words come upon our minds, we should express them in order to free ourselves from high anxiety.
Saaif Alam
#62. Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.
William Cobbett
#63. I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#64. When we fail to express our needs, we remain islands unto ourselves - detached, alone, arrogant, and proud. But when we expose our needs, we are able to receive the supplies and nurture necessary for survival.
Henry Cloud
#65. Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.
O Shakoor
#66. We can live quiet, apparently sedate lives if we express our wildness by risking and leaping in our writing...The strangest, most far-out renegade part of ourselves can be expressed in a poem while we sit quietly in our kitchen or bedroom. This can save our lives
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
#67. We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.
Deepak Chopra
#68. We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.
Domenico Dolce
#69. Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.
Neale Donald Walsch
#70. The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
Piet Mondrian
#71. Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
Andy Murray
#72. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans.
Miguel Ruiz
#73. I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.
Brian Lindstrom
