Clive Barker Quotes

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.