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“By its very nature, discipline is rooted in self-admiration. (Think of discipline as a battery, useful but short-lived.) We admire ourselves for being so wonderful. The discipline itself, not the creative outflow, becomes the point.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process, a loving recognition of all the creativity around us.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“When well-meaning parents and friends push marriage or nine-to-five or anything on us that doesn’t evolve in a way that allows for our art to continue, we will react as if we are fighting for our lives—we are.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity