Julia Cameron Quotes

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

You have to be someone.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Learn what you are and be such.

You blows who you is.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.