Quotes About Self-awareness

The stillness was so complete that I could hear myself swallowing. They wanted me to give them something, and they expected it to be good.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him, I guess. Or maybe when he sees the things he wishes he had in himself.

I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

Ah, the inner eye blinks, and the spirit trembles, at the dangerous cost of seeing one's self as one is.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.

I don't really have a worldview.

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.

I have worn things that are too tight, and I've learned over the years that just because the size on the tag says something smaller doesn't mean it looks good on you.

Your nerve coatings are only so thick. When they get worn really thin and frayed, that's when people say things, do things, misbehave.

I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

I don't need anyone creatively to tell me how I'm supposed to be. Only I know the answer to that. Only I know what I would say. That's always been my outlook. I haven't really worried about rubbing people wrong because I only know how to be Bray. And Bray is always going to be Bray.

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.