n.

Expression of one's own personality, feelings, or ideas, as through speech or art: “Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment” (Pearl S. Buck).

selfexpress self'-ex·press' v.
selfexpressive self'-ex·pres'sive (-sprĕs'ĭv) adj.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities)

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Quotes:

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself." - Henry Ward Beecher

"One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be." - Eric Butterworth

"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you." - Meister Eckhart

"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you." - Natalie Goldberg

"Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening." - George Gurdjieff

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - selvudfoldelse, udløsning for sine evner

Nederlands (Dutch)
zelfexpressie

Français (French)
n. - expression libre

Deutsch (German)
n. - Selbstdarstellung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εξωτερίκευση

Italiano (Italian)
espressione di se stesso

Português (Portuguese)
n. - expressão das próprias idéias

Русский (Russian)
самовыражение

Español (Spanish)
n. - expresión o carácter propio, estilo propio

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - uttryck för sig själv

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
自我表现

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 自我表現

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자기 표현, 개성 표현

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 自己表現

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ألتعبير عن ألذات‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הבעה עצמית של רגשות, מחשבות וכו' בכתיבה, ציור, מוסיקה וכו'‬

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