Julia Cameron Quotes

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.

I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

There is no authentic goal you can set for yourself that can't be reached, no dream that can't be realized. It's just a matter of learning HOW to achieve what you want.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

Man is what his dreams are.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.