Julia Cameron Quotes

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

Money is not going to bring me happiness.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war. Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

You have to do what makes you feel good, but for me, it has to come from that spiritual side first.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.

The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.