Julia Cameron Quotes

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me. Would it make you feel better To watch me, while I bleed? All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.