Journal Writing Quotes

“Do you view your relationship as something to be endured for the sake of the kids, or because you don’t want to be alone, or because you don’t think you could do better?  Or do you view your relationship, even with its imperfections, as a worthwhile work in progress?  How would your view influence how you interact with your partner, what you do, what you say?  What results would those interactions produce?”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“Maya Angelou said, “When someone shows you who he is, believe him the first time.” Or her.  What we do is who we are.  When someone says, “That’s not me,” after doing something or saying something hurtful, they are mistaken.  That is them.  That is exactly them or at least a part of them and it may be a part of them that you do not want in your life.”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“By beginning a diary, I was already conceding that life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure and a tale. I was telling myself the story of a life, and this transmutes into an adventure the things which can shatter you.”
― Anaïs Nin

“The opposite of love isn’t hate.  It’s indifference, lethal neutrality, apathy.  You don’t care. Instead of energy there’s malaise, inertia. Instead of chemistry there’s emptiness. Instead of substance there’s frivolousness. The relationship is all but dead.”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“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

“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

“The idea I want you to embrace is that our relationships thrive, flatline, or fail, gradually then suddenly—one conversation at a time.”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“When people agree, often someone smiles and says – Great minds think alike.  Think about this for a minute. If that were true, then nothing new would emerge in this world.  ”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“When couples cannot talk about their problems in a healthy way and become entrenched in their opinions, they have the same failed conversations over and over.  The relationship becomes emotionally clogged. Friction and frustration grow. Partners feel rejected, like they can’t get through to one another.  Behaviors associated with conflict avoidance include passive aggressive behavior, withdrawal. ”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“When our conversations become constrained, when we avoid topics that might cause upset, when we accept comments or behavior that are hurtful, we no longer aim for harmony but rather toward a sort of deafness that allows us to stay in a relationship longer than we should.  Our senses have become dulled and we end up settling, even when we are anguished. ”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a relationship, any single conversation can.”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts---One Conversation at a Time

“We write to give strength to our soul and to inspire spirit of other souls.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Authentic writing cannot be coerced.”
― Ernst Jünger, A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945

“He had always kept a journal. When he was a young man, in a village outside Rotherham in Yorkshire, he had written a daily examination of his conscience...In the days of the butchery, his journal was full of his desire to be a great man, and his self-castigation... he was a good Latin teacher... a good supervisor... but he was not using his unique gifts, whatever they were, he was *going* nowhere, and he meant to go far. He could not read the circular and painful journals now, with their cries of suffocation and their self-condemnatory periods, but he had them in a bank, for they were part of a record, of an accurate record, of the development of the mind and character of William Adamson, who still meant to be a great man.

(-Morpho Eugenia, Angels and Insects)”
― A.S. Byatt, Angels and Insects

“The journal preserved her dignity; she might look and behave like and live the life of a trained nurse, but she was really an important writer in disguise. And at a time when she was cut off from everything she knew - family, home, friends - writing was the thread of continuity. It was what she had always done.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“And so, here is Rapa’s book, my tribute to her, my one true friend, my love.”
― Poile Sengupta, Inga

“He had always kept a journal. When he was a young man, in a village outside Rotherham in Yorkshire, he had written a daily examination of his conscience...In the days of the butchery, his journal was full of his desire to be a great man, and his self-castigation... he was a good Latin teacher... a good supervisor... but he was not using his unique gifts, whatever they were, he was *going* nowhere, and he meant to go far. He could not read the circular and painful journals now, with their cries of suffocation and their self-condemnatory periods, but he had them in a bank, for they were part of a record, of an accurate record, of the development of the mind and character of William Adamson, who still meant to be a great man.
(-Angels & Insects: Morpho Eugenia)”
― AS Byatt

“In our notebooks , we press our past selves between the pages like diaphanous flowers, so that we can look back and remember who we used to be.”
― Laura Pashby, Little Stories of Your Life: Find Your Voice, Share Your World and Tell Your Story

“Document your dreams.
Sketch that shape you saw.
Write those lyrics before they fade out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“A journal is a self-empowering, self-realizing map we create for ourselves to better our lives.”
― Andrew Pacholyk, Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons

“Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“You will have the grace of writing, when you boldly begin to write your first sentences.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom.”
― Deepak Burfiwala, Self-Ignorance Is Your Problem. Self-Awareness Is Your Solution.: Success Is Your Birthright! Life Is Yours and You Are the Pilot of It, Do Something about It.

“The more you journal, the more you tell your subconscious mind that you honor its messages. In turn, you will have more detailed, more significant dreams. Some dreams may even be lucid or prophetic.”
― Lawren Leo, Horse Magick: Spells and Rituals for Self-Empowerment, Protection, and Prosperity

“What you think would work against you might ends up working for you. Learn to journal all those incidences to boost your confidence to counter all negative and limiting beliefs in your life.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua, Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“Put pen to paper.
The people who build their truest, most beautiful lives usually do. It's hard to jump from dreaming to doing. As every architect or designer knows, here is a critical step between vision and reality. Before imagination becomes three-dimensional, it usually needs to become two-dimensional.
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Let's look at what we've written and decide that these are not pipe dreams; these are our marching orders. These are the blueprints for our lives.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“The past is not the present, so let your future live”
― Karen Gibbs, Your Pocket Coach - 25 Powerful Reminders

“Let the pen carry your thoughts.”
― Denisha Powell

“It struck me then that perhaps the bareness and wrongness of the world was an illusion; that things might still be real, and right, and beautiful, even if I could not see them - that if I stood in the right place, and was lucky this might somehow be revealed to me.”
― Helen Macdonald , H is for Hawk