Julia Cameron Quotes

It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

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.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.