Top 55 Quotes About Journaling
#1. Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.
Michael Bell
#2. If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.
Richard Rohr
#3. I resolved to start journaling every day, and so far I've been journaling every day, and it's been great.
Charlie Worsham
#4. 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.
Kelly Rowland
#5. Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.
Michael Bell
#6. 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
#7. I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper.
Deborah King
#8. Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.
John Piper
#9. Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.
Kris Allen
#10. James W. Pennebaker and his associates at the University of Texas have conducted extensive research on the benefits of journaling. His findings: if you want relief, write about your most upsetting experiences, write through the pain, and connect painful events with your life story.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#11. My creative workday starts with strong breakfast tea and a few minutes of journaling, both of which help me get my head in the story. So much of story-building for me involves immersing myself in the character and situation I'll be working on, just the way an actor does when playing a role.
Therese Fowler
#12. Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.
Mark Batterson
#13. Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.
Mark Batterson
#14. I've always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I'm traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up is pull out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts.
Gloria Reuben
#15. My daily routine varies, but there are certain things I try to stick to, like journaling in the morning and establishing my mood before I check any social media or take any calls or e-mails. That helps get me started on the right foot.
Xosha Roquemore
#16. It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.
Brittany Snow
#17. What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out.
Michael Hyatt
#18. With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
Alanis Morissette
#19. Heart-to-heart journaling is a dialogue with God where both you and God are talking and you are recording it on paper. Heart-to-heart journaling is simply writing out your thoughts to God and what you sense to be His answer or response to you.
Linda Boone
#20. Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.
Kay WalkingStick
#21. Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals.
Hal Elrod
#22. To make time for art, you have to believe that it's possible to make time for art.
L.K. Ludwig
#24. He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.
Donald Miller
#25. I wrote. I wrote all the things I couldn't say to him. I wrote about how much I believed in us. I wrote about how much I trusted God. I wrote that I was praying for him. I wrote down all the jokes I could remember, which weren't many.
Kimberly Novosel
#26. It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they write it down for 10 minutes they become much more available for whatever it is we want to do in the class.
Joan Countryman
#27. The best time to begin keeping a journal is whenever you decide to.
Hannah Hinchman
#28. 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
#29. ....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.
Bruce Black
#30. Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
Pat Conroy
#31. If you truly desire intimacy with your Father and Jesus, you must be willing to do what is the very heart of intimacy: share who you really are with Him - all your innermost thoughts and feelings.
Linda Boone
#32. These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.
Terry Tempest Williams
#34. Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
Isaac Watts
#35. The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he might one day have to read it. He hopes, though, that the flaws in his earlier entries will be balanced by the progress he is able to see.
Paul C. Nagel
#36. 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 Mieville
#37. The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
Virginia Woolf
#38. It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.
David Sedaris
#40. Gratitude is not just a word; it is a way a of life.
Rob Martin
#41. Loneliness of heart
In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear ...
M.I. Ghostwriter
#42. Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.
Carolyn V. Hamilton
#43. The people that surround us mirror who we are.
Rob Martin
#44. We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh air
and realise you can't get up. You're too far down.
Charlotte Eriksson
#45. The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.
Rachel L. Schade
#47. Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession
Alexandra Johnson
#48. 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 Mieville
#49. 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, Editor
#51. True intimacy - sharing who you are, the very deepest part of you - with Him. God wants to listen to who you are.
Linda Boone
#52. I am glad to be with you and treat your weakness tenderly.
E. James Wilder
#53. Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.
David Sedaris
#54. This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.
Diet Eman
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