Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw… — Julia Cameron Art Copy Share Image
Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let… — Julia Cameron Compassionate Copy Share Image
Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well. — Julia Cameron Creativity Copy Share Image
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky,… — Julia Cameron Bright ideas Copy Share Image
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature — Julia Cameron Communication Copy Share Image
You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate. — Julia Cameron Consciousness Copy Share Image
Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs… — Julia Cameron Beauty Copy Share Image
Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not… — Julia Cameron Art Copy Share Image
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -… — Julia Cameron Art Copy Share Image
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Seeking to value ourselves, we look to others for assurance. If what we are doing, threatens them, they cannot give it. If… — Julia Cameron Confidence Copy Share Image
I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Make this a rule: always remember that your Censor’s negative opinions are not the truth.” — Julia Cameron Censor Copy Share Image
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”. — Julia Cameron Anorexia Copy Share Image
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows. — Julia Cameron Candle Copy Share Image
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny. — Julia Cameron Companion Copy Share Image
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling. — Julia Cameron Art Copy Share Image
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality. — Julia Cameron Alive Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Art Copy Share Image
Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished. — Julia Cameron Art Copy Share Image
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The success of Morning Pages hinges on our doing them as close to awakening as we can.” — Julia Cameron Awakening Copy Share Image
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible. — Julia Cameron Dream Copy Share Image
Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living. — Julia Cameron Choice Copy Share Image
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. — Julia Cameron Expectations Copy Share Image
You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect. — Julia Cameron Exercise Copy Share Image
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected. — Julia Cameron Change Copy Share Image
Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
