#express

If you're alive, you're creative. ↗

— Patti Digh

#creativity #encouragement-and-attitude #attitude

Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intentions #motives #oppose #motivational

Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their heart ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#creativity #emotions #freedom-of-expression #trends #writing

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ↗

— Rebecca West

#been #call #differentiate #doormat #express

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#expression #freud #repression #self-expression #emotion

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#be-yourself #expression #yourself #idea

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#feeling #giving #gratitude #like #present

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#reading #expression

I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#expression

I'll be firm," I promised Patch, adopting a no-nonsense expression. "No backing down." By now Patch was full-on grinning. He kissed me again, and I felt my mouth soften its resolve. "You look cute when you're trying to be tough," he said. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#expression