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“Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he did not risk writing them down. "I'd rather take it to my grave," he said. And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie, " he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Each Bullet Journal becomes another volume in the story of your life. Does it represent the life you want to live? If not, then leverage the lessons you've learned to change the narrative in the next volume.”
― Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future

“He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.”
― China Miéville, This Census-Taker

“The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.”
― Danny Gregory, The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are

“You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you won't be lying, though you might be telling two stories at once.”
― China Miéville, This Census-Taker

“Blessed is he who keeps daily diary and compares the work of this week with that of the last, for he will realize God quickly!”
― Sivananda Saraswati, Sure Ways for Success in Life and God Realisation

“What you believe you deserve is what you get in life. Change your beliefs and your life transforms.”
― Jaclyn Nicole Johnston

“Journal writing gives us insights into who we are, who we were, and who we can become.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“You must remember that your story matters. What you write has the power to save a life, sometimes that life is your own.”
― Stalina Goodwin, Make It Write!: Put Your Pain To Work Writing Journal

“This is the age," she explained to me once as we walked home from school, "when we're the purest forms of ourselves we'll ever be. We haven't been complicated by everything yet. I want to keep a clear record of who I am, so that down the road I'll be able to see who I was. Maybe I can avoid losing myself completely."

She sighed, biting her lip pensively. "Things happen," she said. "Small things and large things, and they just keep changing you, little by little, until there's no trace of who you used to be. If I get lost, this journal will be like a record of who I was, a trail of bread crumbs to find my way back.”
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe

“Who we are and where we want to go determines what we do now and what we accomplish over time.”
― Jimmy Tomczak, Lakeside and Tide: Inspiration For Living Your Best Life Now

“I journal my joy, and my joy expands exponentially forevermore. So be it.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

“Journaling can be an excellent way to increase self-awareness, discover and change habits.”
― Akiroq Brost

“It’s not lost on me that I’m so busy recording life, I don’t have time to really live it.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

“The women cannot go out except to go to church or to the bullfight, and even that is unusual. I consider it a very ugly custom, and if I couldn't go out as I wished, I would leave this country [Spain], if only because of that one custom of the inhabitants.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1

“Want to know one of the most rewarding and holistic ways to heal & make significant life choices that will fully align? Learning to slow down, breath, think, journal, talk, and process before reacting. Knowing you have worked through the issue, be it mentally, emotionally or spiritually, before taking action lets you write the script of your life how you want. Which in turn gives you the best chance of achieving your dreams”
― Natasha Potter

“Journaling is a great way to pay attention to “how it all came to be.â€� In looking back, you gain insight into (and appreciation for) your challenges, lessons, and perseverance.”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

“I wanted to write in my journal but couldn't bring myself to. There are so many shades to what passed through me in those days. And I would shrink from committing myself to paper because the light would change before the word was out, the ink was dry.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“If you haven't been journaling through this, now is a good time to start. One day, you and people who love and loved you and people who will never know you may want to look back to understand how you survived.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“And there's my poor endeavoring human desk at which I sit so often during the day, facing south, the papers and pencils and the coffee cup with sprigs of alpine fir and a weird orchid of the heights wiltable in one dayâ€� My Beechnut gum, my tobacco pouch, dusts, pitiful pulp magazines I have to read, view south to all those snowy majestiesâ€� The waiting is long.

On Starvation Ridge
little sticks
Are trying to grow.”
― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

“When I look back on my personal story through my journals, it struck me my words had an unmatched power to heal me. To change me.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

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

“De modo que, perdida la esperanza de creerme inteligente o apasionado, me queda la menos presuntuosa de saberme sincero. Para saberme sincero he empezado estas notas, en las que castigo mi mediocridad son mi propio y objetivo testimonio.”
― Mario Benedetti

“If kids reflect on their days, they will become better problem-solvers of life.”
― Trevor Carss

“Reflection goes hand-in-hand with assessment and leads to long-lasting growth and change (in combination with action, of course).”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

“You review the past to assess the present and then determine what actions are necessary to change your future. You take what you know and apply it to how you want to grow. Thus, the power of journaling.”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

“My head is burning again this morning. I am starting to get used to it and see it as a glow. The head weighs fourteen pounds or thereabouts. Today, mine feels like a giant sunflower perched on top of a slender, swaying reed. It is odd to me how an easy day like yesterday is followed by another like today. I stay with discomfort, and pause to rest the lids of my eyes, my head on its stem.”
― Cathy Edgett, Breast Strokes: Two Friends Journal Through the Unexpected Gifts of Cancer

“I find the act of writing my thoughts out both frightening and healing. I am appalled at what is shackled in the depths of my heart, but I sense a release when it transfers from this inner depth of me to the page beneath my pen. My vision is beginning to clear and shrouded events are coming into alignment with some degree of clarity.

Now I need the courage to disclose my secrets and believe God will take care of me. No matter what the results are of the truth emerging, I want to trust He can use it for good in my life . . . somehow.”
― Jenny Knipfer, Ruby Moon

“Death gives us a whole new perspective on life"
Excerpt from my recent journal titled
"My Thoughts On Death”
― David Carroll

“She's an enthusiastic recorder of life - writes in her journal every prodigiously, loads her camera's SD cards with thousands of pictures. Her swooping, idiosyncratic half-print, half-cursive style scrawls on month after month, skipping lines between the scraps of the discussion that seem important enough to snatch and capture.”
― Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading