Journal Entry Quotes

#1. Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

Katherine Mansfield

#2. A good journal entry- like a good song, or sketch, or photograph- ought to break up the habitual and life away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love letter to the world.

Anthony Doerr

#3. Tonight I write this journal entry on my laptop. Other nights I have handwritten entries in notebooks. Sometimes I jot down notes as I ride home in the cab or wait for an appointment. I want all of this
everything and everyone
to stay with me.

Paula Huntley

#4. Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

Jane Yolen

#5. But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)

Neil Gaiman

#6. When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.

Mitchel Resnick

#7. Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. 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

#9. Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

Benjamin Tucker

#10. we're using our freedoms to break the bonds of community, which have long held us together.

Jen Pollock Michel

#11. In a way, I think we all want to look to that journalistic voice as a kind of global omniscience, a big eye to correct for our own limited purview: "Here's a realistic accounting of the world in which we live."

Karen Russell

#12. Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.

Randy West

#13. It is normal to be curious. The only shame is if all the musts and shoulds drown out the wants that we hear inside ourselves.

Madeline Hunter

#14. If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: "And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring," answered the heart.

Flavia Weedn

#15. I'm more like an oven than a microwave,

Erykah Badu

#16. If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Kenneth Minogue

#18. I came, I saw, I blew chunks.

Jeff Lindsay

#19. I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.

Kanye West

#20. Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather.

Meghan Daum

#21. And instead of dying Immediately after they shot him, he would go on to survive several days solely because of the cold that January. Maybe that's why we are drawn to those who posses the coldest of hearts ... In effort to survive.

Bethany Brookbank

#22. I have a journal of everything I've ever climbed since 2005. For the entry about free soloing Half Dome, I put a frowny face and added some little notes about what I should have done better, and then underlined it. Turns out that is one of my biggest climbing achievements.

Alex Honnold

#23. Like a rose, life is charming and beautiful. By spreading fragrance, we make it meaningful.

Debasish Mridha

#24. They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#25. Metaphorically speaking, some very bright people suggest that citizens of the twenty-first century will be best protected by masks and shields, while I prefer the image of a light saber.

David Brin