Julia Cameron Quotes

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work . . . Things just don't mean happiness.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

I'm in a happy place. I'm very at peace with who I am and what I'm doing and the people around me, so I think I'm probably most ambitious at where I am.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

The scalpel won't make you happy.

I'm not miserable; please don't misunderstand me. I have a lovely life.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.