Journaling Quotes

“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“I never wrote things down to remember;
I always wrote things down so I could forget.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”
― Christina Baldwin

“Sometimes when I’ve felt despondent for several days, it helps to discipline myself by saying, ‘I’m going to think only positive thoughts.’ Enough is enough!”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“With all this talk about taking my life, why have I never attempted it? Answer: I have an overwhelming desire to live.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“My therapist opens my wounds a little deeper, then picks at the scabs.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.”
― Virginia Woolf

“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“And so I just kept writing to myself.”
― Kimberly Novosel, Loved

“This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.”
― Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say

“Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we may all say, great is the Lord and highly worthy to be praised. I tell my story for love of Your love.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.”
― Isaac Watts, The Improvement Of The Mind To Which Are Added A Discourse On The Education Of Children

“Keeping a journal: The short entries are often as dry as instant tea. Writing them down is like pouring hot water over them to release their aroma.”
― Ernst Jünger, A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

“I had always felt things deeply, that was my nature. It was why I was a writer. Sometimes, the feelings were so huge, they needed a place to go.”
― Gemma Amor, White Pines

“Jake always liked his books and stories. And writing in his diaries. It was a comfort for him. He could work through things that way.”
“That’s nice. I’ve noticed he still likes to write. He spends a lot of time writing.”
“That’s how he makes sense of the world.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“People refer to the fog of war, and I am sure something similar applies to my situation. If I hadn't kept a running record of the days, weeks, and years, the fog would have swallowed too much of the story for me to provide a reliable account.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“The body will fail you, the mind will deceive you, but the spirit is the true essence of the Individual.”
― Phillip Anderson

“Peter: Journaling takes a lot of discipline.”
Vivienne: “Or neurosis,”
― Shannon Castleton, Drinker of Ink

“When we let ourselves write--write freely without fear--we invite the unconscious forward, moving beyond our "scripts" into our truth. Writing is the key. Simply thinking through our issues is too vague, too noncommittal. Like the ocean, one thought gets washed away with another: a wave comes in, only to be washed over by another wave. Connections between how we're currently living and what we really want can be fleeting, easily lost if not captured. Writing commits our thoughts and feelings to paper so that we can be in relationship with them and with ourselves--artifacts of our interior available for reflection, and refinement.”
― Bonnie Wan, The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living

“As the seasons of the soul change, so too does the relationship between ego and essence evolve. Through practices such as meditation, reflective journaling, and mindful living, we cultivate a soil rich in understanding and acceptance. In this enriched soil, the essence, with its timeless wisdom, is allowed to bloom, spreading its fragrance of peace and serenity through the gardens of our minds.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“Just the act of free-flow writing quieted my brain. It took the big ball of yarn and tangles, and somehow, a little corner of it began revealing order.”
― S.D.G., Naked

“Best write it all out I suppose - exorcise the demons.”
― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8

“Even for autobiographical purposes a diary is nothing like so useful as I had hoped. You put down each day what you think important; but of course you cannot each day see what will prove to have been important in the long run.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I write letters because I want to convey to someone the stories of these people, but also because I want to let someone know that a day had existed for me as well. Letters, in other words, are like journal entries to me. The only difference is that the day does not stay with me, but is sent to someone else. Journals are monopolized, but letters are shared. Journals are kept by one person alone, but letters are kept by two or more people.”
― Jung Yewon, No One Writes Back

“Close your eyes and open the windows of your heart to reflection and introspection as it is the first step to healing your soul.”
― Eboni Ivory Green, Reflections from the Soul: Acknowledge, Ruminate, Be Inspired

“Please keep the acronym AIR in mind as you work through the exercises in the pages that follow:
*Acknowledge your feelings
Stay open to being *Inspired
*Reflect deeply so that you can heal.”
― Eboni Ivory Green, Reflections from the Soul: Acknowledge, Ruminate, Be Inspired

“You are enough, just as you are.”
― Geanina-Ligia Parvan, Pages of the Soul - Volume l: Write your way back to yourself - a sacred space for healing and clarity

“Five minutes of gratitude can brighten your entire day.”
― Lumia Books Publishing

“Guilty of this furtive diarism. But where can all this knowledge—these feelings—go? When I think about letting on, letting people in on anything, I also think: Get over yourself. Where else but here can all this—these feelings—go?”
― Peter Mendelsund, Exhibitionist: 1 Journal, 1 Depression, 100 Paintings