550 Expression Quotes for You to Enjoy

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate. Lynn Coady

Love Time Words Eloquent Easy Seem Inadequate Clumsy Expression Flowers

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. Margaret Atwood

Believe Once Examination Student Simply Vehicle Firmly Also Private Exists Did Graduate Graduate Student Literature Victorian Social Novel Novelists Expression

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace. Markus Wolf

I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children. Naveen Jain

Nature Challenges Will Face Believe Lasting Humility Our Defined Lies Ability Fearless Daughters Mentor Take Sons Global Perhaps Most Also Accomplishments Wonder Legacy Children Which Foster Expression

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options. Sharon Salzberg

Positive Time You Yourself Mind Thought Feeling Meditation Other Caring See Some More Through Recovery Open Self-Defeating Unworthy Up Begin Options Quieter Move Patterns Meaningful Your Dedicating Help Expression Grows

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice. Tabatha Coffey

Creative Creativity People Important Own Convictions Minutiae Tenacious Day-To-Day How Caught Passions Lot Up Mode Forget Get Getting Being Choice Your Standing Popular Even Expression Fundamental

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. Tara Brach

If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated. Ted Yoho

Freedom You World Liberty Freedom Of Speech Become Pockets More More And More Freedom Of Expression Look Underlying Around Access Isolated Blocking Off Going Information Expression Basic Start Speech

Hair color is just an expression of something different that you want to have, or something creative. Tina Knowles

You Creative Hair Something Color Hair Color Just Different Want Expression

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it. Henry Rollins

Attitude You Yourself Battle Writing Try Will Punk Sense Everything Out Hoping Some Relying Open Touring Taking Make Making Go Being Figure Expression Hardcore Travelling Things

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. Alfred Adler

Inferiority Feeling Exaggerated Expression

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle. Amor Towles

Struggle World Cake Behavior Before Manners Sweet Think Way Finishes Nobility Outward Like Contemporary Inward Attractive Contemporary World Politeness Surface Off Very Different Them Century Viewed Expression Different Way Thinkers Enlightened

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever. Antonin Scalia

Government Hate Words Whatever Unjust Could Written Idea Flag Oral Just Form Burning Mean Expresses Expression Symbol Speech

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. Asghar Farhadi

Hope Day You Creative Fight Sunshine Walk Censorship Weather Bit One Day Out Sunny Restrictions Like Passive Iran Iranian Lot Just Whenever Them Next Means Creative Expression Expression Raining British Filmmakers