Julia Cameron Quotes

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

Ego is good.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

Always think yourself a perfect being and be satisfied with yourself.

People see us as no better than we are.

I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.

There's no such thing as being perfect, and that doesn't just mean the perfect body.

Most people settle because they don't like themselves enough.

If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.

My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.