#expression

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. ↗

— Karl Barth

#find #grace #life #must #otherwise

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#language #words #experience

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#come #contribute #creature #different #divinity

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle. ↗

— Mike Watt

#expression #fit #form #get #imitation

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#arisen #basically #conditions #confusing #encouraged

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#clothes #expression #face #far #her

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#expression #i #parts #play #sculptures

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#expression #never #our #understand #us

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#does #expression #line #lying #making

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought