Quotes About Expression

Once your words fly out of your mouth, you sometimes can't control whether they fly straight or crooked, Grandma Augustine says. "They can get bent in the strangest ways." Grandma Augustine says that the only way to straighten out bad words is to keep making good ones until you say what you need to say to who you need to say it to.

For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces

Until you tell me what's really on your mind, you'll stay stuck exactly where you are.

often different parts of ourselves want different things, and if we silence the parts we find unacceptable, they'll find other ways to be heard.

Perhaps men apologize preemptively, by holding their tears back.

you can't mute one emotion without muting the others.

dance allows our bodies to express our emotions in a way that words sometimes can't. When we dance, we express our buried feelings, talking through our bodies instead of our minds — and that can help us get out of our heads and to a new level of awareness. That's partly what dance therapy is about. It's another technique some therapists use.

When we dance, we express our buried feelings, talking through our bodies instead of our minds—and that can help us get out of our heads and to a new level of awareness

His expression is sad instead of angry now. Anger is the go-to feeling for most people because it's outward-directed—angrily blaming others can feel deliciously sanctimonious.

you can't mute one emotion without muting the others. You want to mute the pain? You'll also mute the joy.

Therapists delve into a mind rather than a brain, and we can see from the subtlest gesture or expression if we've hit a nerve. But unlike neurosurgeons, we gravitate toward the sensitive area, pressing delicately on it, even if it makes the patient feel uncomfortable.

reaction formation, unacceptable feelings or impulses are expressed as their opposite,

People don't have to tell you their stories with words because they always act them out for you.

Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.

Breathing is a lot like creativity. Like an inhale, you receive an inspiration, you let it run through the unique magnificence of who you are, and then you release it into the world, letting it go, unattached to the way it needs to look.

Relax your expectations, in fact, purposely lower them so low that you feel excitedly naughty about showing up to perform your work with reckless abandon. If that's hard, open to doing it that way just 5%. Deliberately perform below your skill-level to get started and to see what ideas fall out of a relaxed approach. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you'll truly be an artist of being alive.

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The greatness of the tattoo artist lies in her ability to gauge the degree to which she can push her art before the art kills the canvas.

Seeing how a hand carves out meaning with a pencil point lets us remember that the human touch is essential.

month after our lunch at Sant Ambroeus. I blurted it out so loud in Orsay

curtain yelled, 'I hate you, I hate you so much, just GET OUT OF MY LIFE!

He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe's belly.

You really do have some pretty fancy words lately. Yeah. He put the mistletoe in his pocket and pulled her in closer. And here's three more.....I love you.

Are you angry? Because we do some of our best naked work when you're angry.