Journaling Quotes:

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

- Kris Allen

source: "Five Questions with Kris Allen". www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2009.

topic: Journaling

My journal is my life's companion.

- Christina Baldwin

topic: Companion, Journal, Journaling

a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.679, e-artnow

topic: Feelings, Journaling

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

- Christina Baldwin

source: Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

topic: Writing, Reflection, Bridges, Journaling

What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out.

- Michael Hyatt

source: Twitter post from Dec 31, 2016

topic: Important, Helping, Happens, Journaling

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

- Susan Sontag

topic: Independent, Dumb, Secret, Keeping A Journal, Journaling

Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.

- Kay WalkingStick

topic: Art, Hate, Thinking, Journaling

When we don't nourish ourselves with fresh, healthy food, restful sleep, regular exercise, a daily spiritual practice such as meditation or journaling, and other mind-body healing habits, we will inevitably feel tired, out of balance, irritable, and sometimes even depressed.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Spiritual, Healing, Tired, Journaling, Daily Spiritual

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

- John Piper

topic: Illumination, Way, Spirit, Journaling

Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.

- Michael Bell

topic: Essentials, World, Process, Journaling, Continuous Change

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

- Jo Coudert

source: Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.99, iUniverse

topic: Notebook, Meaningful, Running, Journaling

Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals.

- Hal Elrod

topic: Powerful, Writing, Practice, Journaling

I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper.

- Deborah King

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Writing, Heart, Keys, Journaling

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

- Christina Baldwin

topic: Teacher, Writing, Diaries, Journal Writing, Journaling

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.

- Michael Bell

topic: Expression, Connections, Language, Journaling

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Eye, Writing, Practice, Journaling

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

- George Sand

topic: Ocean, Writing, Mean, Journaling

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.27, Macmillan

topic: Age, Encounters, World, Journaling

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.511, Macmillan

topic: Notebook, Writing, Letters, Journaling

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

- Christina Baldwin

topic: Jobs, Writing, Silence, Journaling

I've always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I'm traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up is pull out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts.

- Gloria Reuben

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Notebook, Uplifting, Home, Journaling

If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, Prayer, Spiritual Teachers, Journaling

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Live Life, Writing, Songwriting, Journaling

My daily routine varies, but there are certain things I try to stick to, like journaling in the morning and establishing my mood before I check any social media or take any calls or e-mails. That helps get me started on the right foot.

- Xosha Roquemore

topic: Morning, Media, Feet, Journaling

We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.

- Christina Baldwin

topic: Responsibility, Writing, People, Individual Life, Journaling

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

- Glenn Greenwald

source: Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.21, Signal

topic: Real, Political, Abuse, Journaling, Access To Information

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

- Brittany Snow

topic: Sound, Lame, May, Journaling

What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

topic: Fun, Book, Heart, Journaling, Note Book

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.

- David Sedaris

topic: Fighting, July, Diaries, Journaling

Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

- Christina Baldwin

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Journey, Journaling, Transfiguration

If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you want to write something that may eventually see the light of day, that a magazine might buy or a publisher publish, then you'll have to knock off the journaling and do the grunt work that real writing requires.

- Robert Masello

topic: Real, Writing, Light, Keeping A Journal, Journaling

In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced.

- Pauline Oliveros

source: Source: www.artpractical.com

topic: Writing, Exercise, Class, Semester, Journaling