Quotes About Journaling

For my 100-day project, I decided to keep a journal. It could be just one sentence. Often, it was just one word, occasionally the F-word. But it gave me a sense of structure.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

I remember travelling up and down the road, and I kept journals during my whole career, and I was always making notes about things I wanted to say, words I wanted to create, actions I wanted to do, things I wanted to do to make the character more imaginative and fantastical.

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

I always have a notebook - I have kept diaries since I was eight years old. My preferred choice is a Moleskine because they have a pocket at the back where I can keep airline tickets and my passport.

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

Everyone should keep a dream journal, did you know that?

Grateful attitude, Thank God for one specific thing daily and write it in a journal. You will be amazed at abundance of blessings which will flow in your life.

Everyone should have a form of a diary it's a great release Most people's Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me".

I'm thinking I don't know what I'd possibly write about in a journal," I told him, even though I knew what he intended. But I'd spent so much time in other windowless rooms, recounting the details of that night at the church for a white-haired detective and a haggard-looking assistant district attorney, that I felt no desire to do it again.

Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it

Write it down, Gio. After dinner go to your room and write down what happened and how you feel about it. Your writing is good--it really is. Just don't run away from the feelings.

I only have love affairs with a notebook.

It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

I maintained a diary when I was a child and had all the happenings jotted down.

It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing.

One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary

But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will have been recorded for posterity after one mere year!) (September 5) Oops. Missed a day.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

I usually just write down what I'm doing and how I felt. How I felt if I'm skating fast, compared to if I'm skating slow or if I'm tired. I can always go back and look as a reference and see what I was doing. It's pretty much my life on ice.

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.

If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not.