Top 400 Julia Cameron Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” THE TALMUD.”

— Julia Cameron

252. “We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express...”

— Julia Cameron

253. “When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.”

— Julia Cameron

254. “Your depression is exhaustion. Like Atlas, you try to carry this world on your own shoulders. This was never my intention. Allow me to carry the world.”

— Julia Cameron

255. “Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.”

— Julia Cameron

256. “I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.”

— Julia Cameron

257. “I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.”

— Julia Cameron

258. “Because if you’re trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.”

— Julia Cameron

259. “Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.”

— Julia Cameron

260. “If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.”

— Julia Cameron

261. “It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.”

— Julia Cameron

262. “We go into parenting, and we discover that we don’t have the answers. We are at a loss.”

— Julia Cameron

263. “There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.”

— Julia Cameron

264. “Faced with a divorce or separation, faced with the need to terminate a long-standing friendship, I must remind myself that sometimes the most loving involvement is a non-involvement.”

— Julia Cameron

265. “When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.”

— Julia Cameron

266. “Creativity is God’s will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.”

— Julia Cameron

267. “Art? You just do it. MARTIN RITT.”

— Julia Cameron

268. “If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.”

— Julia Cameron

269. “Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.”

— Julia Cameron

270. “In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.”

— Julia Cameron

271. “It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.”

— Julia Cameron

272. “When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.”

— Julia Cameron

273. “What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.”

— Julia Cameron

274. “Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.”

— Julia Cameron

275. “Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.”

— Julia Cameron

276. “Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.”

— Julia Cameron

277. “Without being acknowledged, they are often used as batteries by their families and friends, who feel free to both use their creative energies and disparage them.”

— Julia Cameron

278. “Art is born in attention.”

— Julia Cameron

279. “Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.”

— Julia Cameron

280. “Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.”

— Julia Cameron

281. “Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn’t matter. Relying on that force does.”

— Julia Cameron

282. “Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.”

— Julia Cameron

283. “We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. SUSAN JEFFERS.”

— Julia Cameron

284. “Today, I release the urgency of outer events. I listen to the inner rhythm of God. I set my pace by divine guidance. The world and its busy agendas do not control my soul.”

— Julia Cameron

285. “We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core.”

— Julia Cameron

286. “Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.”

— Julia Cameron

287. “Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.”

— Julia Cameron

288. “Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. HENRY MILLER.”

— Julia Cameron

289. “When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature.”

— Julia Cameron

290. “If you want to write a novel, it’s the Divine mind wanting to express.”

— Julia Cameron

291. “As an artist, I do not need to be rich but I do need to be richly supported. I cannot allow my emotional and intellectual life to stagnate or the work will show it. My life will show it.”

— Julia Cameron

292. “To be an artist is to recognize the particular. To appreciate the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to accepted standards. To ask the question “Why?” To be an artist is to risk admitting that much of what is money, property, and prestige strikes you as just a little silly.”

— Julia Cameron

293. “I am not merely abundant. I am infinite.”

— Julia Cameron

294. “Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.”

— Julia Cameron

295. “Every child is born an artist. The trick is remaining one as an adult.”

— Julia Cameron

296. “To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue.”

— Julia Cameron

297. “In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.”

— Julia Cameron

298. “Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.”

— Julia Cameron

299. “Today, I welcome the winds of change. Today I cooperate with the new experiences coming to my soul.”

— Julia Cameron

300. “Today, I am a clear stream flowing softly through green meadows. I make my way swiftly but gently to my goals.”

— Julia Cameron