Best Quotes by Julia Cameron (Top 10)

  1. Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?
  2. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations.
  3. Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
  4. Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
  5. What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
  6. Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness
  7. I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
  8. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
  9. No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
  10. Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

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