Brie Larson Quotes

I feel like if I had a spirit animal, it would be Holly Hunter.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

I've realized how little sleep I actually need.

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that. It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within.

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds work, the way our minds hop from thing to thing to thing. The Internet mirrors that to such a degree you can actually see it. Show me your search history and I'll show you who you are.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.