Quotes About Journaling Writing

#1. 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

#2. The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

Ted Dekker

#3. I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!

Ricki Lake

#4. 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

#5. The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Eleanor Clark

#7. Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Pat Conroy

#8. When will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself. Usually for the man she loves. Always for her children.

Agatha Christie

#9. ....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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences. The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and the interplay of signification ad infinitum.

Jacques Derrida

#14. 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

#15. We lost our country somewhere along the way. We know where we lost it but we do not appear to have the strength to eliminate those blocking our view to enable us to develop our common identity.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#16. To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.

Alan Watts

#17. He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

Donald Miller

#18. And so I just kept writing to myself.

Kimberly Novosel

#19. I had become one with the plumbing.

Rick Riordan

#20. For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ...

Ellen Glasgow

#21. 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

#22. Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Baldwin

#23. 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

#24. Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

Iimani David

#25. Love is a shooting star that lands in your heart, and lives forever.

Danielle Steel

#26. Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

Alexandra Johnson

#27. There is only one way to success, wealth and achievement and that is through a lot of hard work.

John Patrick Hickey

#28. The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.

Rachel L. Schade

#29. It's when my body decides to remind me it can do more than I'll ever want it to, it is so painful.

Courtney Summers

#30. 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