Julia Cameron Quotes

We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

I don't look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I'm doing everything I can, so there's nothing I can do about it.

It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days.

There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don't let anybody tell you any different, because everyone's special and everyone's awesome.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

Sometimes I gotta look in the mirror and say, 'Hey, they're still saying you're too fat, but you're here! They gotta take it or leave it.' And in most cases, if they leave it, it's all good because they don't need to be in my space anyway.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Understanding who you are is saying, 'You're great; you have tons of confidence, and don't ever forget that.' And that helped me, man. Because when things weren't going right, I thought, 'You've got to remember who you are. Don't stray from that. Don't let these things get you down.'

My number one thing is be kind to yourself. We can't control what other people do, we can only control what we do.

You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

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

I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.

Love yourself before any other person. That's when you can really survive on your own.

If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

It takes a while to really love yourself...