{"quotes":[{"text":"In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["loneliness","self-expression","solitude"],"id":3938,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.","author":"Ben Michaelis","tags":["criticism","originality","self-esteem","self-expression"],"id":8507,"author_id":"Ben+Michaelis"},{"text":"People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!","author":"Henry James","tags":["freedom","honesty","self-expression"],"id":16188,"author_id":"Henry+James"},{"text":"In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?","author":"Robert Henri","tags":["art","artist","creativity","self-expression"],"id":20841,"author_id":"Robert+Henri"},{"text":"It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.","author":"Ayaan Hirsi Ali","tags":["civil-rights","freedom","self-expression"],"id":23369,"author_id":"Ayaan+Hirsi+Ali"},{"text":"Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our storyline into the annuals of time. To endure a mortal life is merely a transitory experience whereas writing about how one lived is an internalized exposition of what it means to be human. Writing is an external exhibition injecting the author into the world’s consciousness.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["artistic-expression","autobiography","memoir","personal-essay","personal-essays","self-examination","self-expression","storytelling","writing","writing-life","writing-process"],"id":27877,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["art","creativity","inspirational","self-expression"],"id":28203,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written., 8 September 1935).","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["creative-process","expectations","honesty","integrity","on-writing","pandering","self-expression","selling-out","writing"],"id":31132,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence. Terrified of squandering our existence, we each seek to break out from our muteness and strike an accord with our brothers and sisters whom share our inherent desire to reach a global consilience.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["communication","connectedness","death","human-existence","muteness","self-expression","writing"],"id":37401,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["communication","communication-skills","note-to-self","self-expression"],"id":44539,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":95,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}