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A world view is probably an expression of self. -- Michael Leunig
The goal of art was the vital expression of self. -- Alfred Stieglitz
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. -- Alice Walker
Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others. -- Grace Gealey
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. -- Nick Hornby
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies. -- Quentin Crisp
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. -- Lauren Greenfield
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not. -- Nick Hornby
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God. -- Ernest Holmes
Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. That's why I love trying out new things. -- Ashley Madekwe
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. -- Nathaniel Branden
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. -- John Malkovich
I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. -- David Duchovny
My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in. -- John Turturro
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. -- Vivienne Westwood
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. -- Ralph Marston
Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. -- Donnie Yen
I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess. -- Lena Headey
I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in. -- Kate Winslet
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. -- Fay Weldon
In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction. -- Edmund Phelps
I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression. -- Phoebe Philo
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. -- Slash
Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. -- Norman Lindsay
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. -- John Updike
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. -- Moshe Safdie
Self-expression without craft is for toddlers. -- Rosanne Cash
Self expression is a function of responsibility. -- Werner Erhard
Every act is an expression of one's self. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
If you copy then it is not self-expression. -- Michael Schenker
Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature. -- Dale Carnegie
clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression. -- Radclyffe Hall
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. -- Pearl S. Buck
Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self -- Russell Simmons
Work is an almost pure expression of the self. -- Chase Twichell
A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom. -- Robin S
We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression. -- Max Stirner
I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial. -- Winston Churchill
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self. -- Bel Kaufman
Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self. -- Vidal Sassoon
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression. -- Elizabeth I
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. -- Charles Eames
Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper. -- Gordon Lish
A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness. -- Kathryn V. White
A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self. -- Carl Jung
Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused. -- Isaac Hayes
Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused. -- Isaac Hayes
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it. -- Marcel Duchamp
Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression. -- Bruce Lee
Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read. -- Lee Gutkind
I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things. -- Emma Goldman
Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play. -- Josee Chouinard
Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. -- Fannie Farmer
Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts. -- Matthew Fox
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. -- Anais Nin
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. -- James Q. Wilson
That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. -- Israel Shahak
People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression. -- Wyclef Jean
To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression. -- Eikoh Hosoe
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. -- Bennie Wallace
Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things. -- Ashley Madekwe
If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression . -- Oprah Winfrey
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. -- Whit Burnett
My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in. -- John Turturro
Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose. -- Laurence Boldt
Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you. -- Randy Gage
A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it. -- Dennis Kimbro
Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now. -- Stephanie Mills
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. -- Alexander von Humboldt
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express... -- Julia Cameron
Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self. -- Kenny Werner
The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed. -- John Dewey
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. -- Richard Peck
Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it. -- Gerard Way
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit. -- Paul Carus
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you. -- Robert Holden
Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood. -- Nicole Richie
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all. -- Salvador Dali
I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression. -- Brie Larson
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. -- Vladimir Kramnik
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality. -- Carl Jung
A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression. -- Lawrence Fertig
People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds. -- Caroline Myss
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. -- Felix Frankfurter
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. -- Marc Jacobs
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse. -- Mickey Hart
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. -- Marc Jacobs
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. -- Matthew Kelly
the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. -- Arthur Koestler
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes. -- Patrick Williams
Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that. -- Shania Twain
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. -- Charles Baudelaire
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy. -- Phil Robertson
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. -- Andre Gide
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals. -- Octavio Paz
It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression. -- John Leguizamo
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant. -- Henry Wriston
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? -- C. Day Lewis
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? -- C. Day Lewis
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . -- Thurgood Marshall
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics. -- Percy Cerutty
Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books. -- Aldous Huxley
what might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ... -- Wendy Kaminer
Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want! -- Ariana Grande
If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation. -- Steve Erickson
Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African. -- Goapele
You will leave this course being a leader and exercising leadership effectively as your natural self-expression in any situation and no matter what the circumstances. -- Werner Erhard
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us. -- Ansel Adams
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. -- Edgar Winter
Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in. -- Melinda Gebbie
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express. -- Graham Greene
Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self. -- Guy Finley
I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me. -- Carmen Ejogo
The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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. -- Semir Zeki

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