Julia Cameron Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• "God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

  Julia Cameron

  God, Jesus, Giving

  "Finding Water". Book by Julia Cameron, 2006.

• We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

  Julia Cameron

  Strong, Thinking, Giving

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 05, 2016

• As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

  Julia Cameron

  Children, Our World, Names

• Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Penguin

• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Order, Giving

• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

• Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Giving, Environment

  Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.13, Penguin

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