Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need something to fall back on?' They acted as though creativity was completely normal. "

Related Quotes:

" So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones. "

Julia Cameron

Creativity

Illusion

Money

" I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. "

" I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.' "

" I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help. "

" When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right. "

" I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month. "

Julia Cameron

Plan

I Can

" We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day. "

" In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others. "

" I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people. "

Julia Cameron

Think

Just

" In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening. "

" Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. "

" When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish. "

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

" There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority. "

" My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.' "

Julia Cameron

You

Life

" My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. "

" When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay. "

" We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss. "

Julia Cameron

Loss

Parenting

" I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning. "

" Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything. "

" You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith. "

" I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak. "

" A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox. "

" Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence. "

" Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources. "

" For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play. "

" The tools of 'The Prosperous Heart' help people to embrace the life that they actually have, where they often find that they already have 'enough.' "

" People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process. "

" Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to. "

" When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands. "