Eric Clapton Quotes

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

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

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

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.