#express

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#arts #aspect #closer #easy #easy way

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#expressing #hip #i #i think #journey

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#enlightenment #expression #face #faces #life

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#expression #face #life #satire #life

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

#self-expression #uniqueness #life

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else. ↗

— William Ames

#anywhere #because #come #does #else

It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn’t have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#healing-grief #music #music

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#expressing-yourself #life-lessons #life

Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose? ↗

— Claire Cross

#expression #feelings #love

If you're alive, you're creative. ↗

— Patti Digh

#creativity #encouragement-and-attitude #attitude