Journal Quotes

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

~ Sylvia Plath

It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day – or as he sleeps – simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere – us – I know I have a chance.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

~ Rachel Klein

we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

~ Charles Bukowski

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

~ Christina Baldwin

It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love

~ Nancy E. Turner

And so I just kept writing to myself.

~ Kimberly Novosel

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells of languor alternating with fits and spasms of mad typing. At all times, though, I keep a journal, a record book, and most everything begins in the form of notes scribbled down on the pages of that journal.

~ Edward Abbey

You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Without written goals, we fail to plan and to run with single-minded purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Write down your goals and let it be your guidepost.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A stream of thoughts flows through one’s mind at a sacred-time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of the pen is landmark of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We were always eating expired things. Milk, bread, biscuits, cake. We forgot about them as they sat around the house and just as they had gone bad, we put them in our mouths. Chocolates I brought back with me from Australia, cheeses in last year's Christmas hamper, juice from the last time someone decided to go grocery shopping. We didn't always realize they tasted funny – not everything curdles and a two-month-old orange can be just as sweet. When we did, it was usually too late. Sometimes it wasn't. We finished what we had started anyway.

~ Cheryl Julia Lee

Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after four weeks at sea, he writes: Dear diary...I means journal. Yes, dear journal. That's what I meant to say. Whew. Anyway, we have yet to discover America, and the crew has become increasingly rebellious. I have decided to turn back if we have not spotted it by Columbus Day. Will write again later if not killed by crew. P.S. Last night's buffet was fabulous, the ice sculptures magnificent.

~ Cuthbert Soup

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.

~ Alysha Speer

The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.

~ Rachel L. Schade

Creating is like the oxygen in my air.

~ Syd Murray

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you see the light through the darkness, wisdom through the pain and strength through the suffering.

~ Rachel K Kidder

Am I making something worth while?I’m not sure.I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,but am I making something worth while?I’m not sure.There was a boy last night who I never spoke to because I was too drunk and still shy, but mostly lonely, and I couldn’t find anything lightly to say,so I simply walked awaybut still wondered what he did with his lifebecause he didn’t even speak to meor look at mebut still made me wonder who he wasand I walked away askingAm I making something worth while?I am not sure.I am a complicated person with a simple lifeand I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I can write three hundred and sixty-five grateful thanks. Cultivate the habit to write gratitude daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

~ Dawna Markova

Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I’d love him a little less.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I write awe-thoughts flowing in my mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Capture the sacred-thoughts and write it a journal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I'm not the one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. I'm just starting the journey if you will, so I can't possibly know yet what the message of my life really is. I only know what has happened so far, and how I've felt up until this moment. I agree that reading about the pain of others is concerning when they are still hurting and in the same situation as when they wrote about it. But what can you do? You can reach out, ask how you can help and be there to listen. You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved. You can't love someone who doesn't love themselves enough to take care of themselves and stay out of bad situations. Believe me, I know this.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Each day, write a thankful note.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Because zombies can’t go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.

~ M.c. Steve

I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.

~ Clint Van Winkle