Quote

God does not give us more than we can handle, I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

Julia Cameron

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Lord
Overestimate
Jesus
Underestimate
Doesn
Likely
Doe
Handle
Give
God
Littles
Perhaps
Little
Told
Giving
Wonder

More quotes by Julia Cameron

Image
Leap, and the net appears.
Julia Cameron
Image
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Julia Cameron
Image
I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
Julia Cameron
Image
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
Julia Cameron
Image
If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.
Julia Cameron
Image
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
Julia Cameron
Image
You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)
Julia Cameron
Image
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
Julia Cameron
Image
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
Julia Cameron
Image
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
Julia Cameron
Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.
Julia Cameron
Image
It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.
Julia Cameron
Image
Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
Julia Cameron
Image
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Julia Cameron
Image
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
Julia Cameron
Image
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.
Julia Cameron
Image
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
Julia Cameron
Image
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
Julia Cameron
Image
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Julia Cameron
Image
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Julia Cameron