Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Individuality Self Expression Uniqueness

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

~ Tammy Wooster

Tammy Wooster Individuality Self Expression Stay True To Who You Are

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

~ Phil Cooke

Phil Cooke Mental Health Self Expression Writing

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

~ Maddy Kobar

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If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art—and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.

~ Anthony Marais

Anthony Marais Artists Originality Self Expression

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

~ Lauren Lola

Lauren Lola Contemporary Parkour Self Expression Tricking

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.

~ Bisco Hatori

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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness.

~ Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg Be Yourself Self Expression

Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect.

~ Debasish Mridha

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