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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Creativity
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Life
Useful

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Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
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Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.
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All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.
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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
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Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.
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Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for you might just get it?
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.
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