{"id":21913,"date":"2023-02-10T10:52:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dayoneapp.com\/?p=21913"},"modified":"2024-09-30T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:18:16","slug":"quotes-about-journaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dayoneapp.com\/blog\/quotes-about-journaling\/","title":{"rendered":"100+ Quotes About Journaling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Journaling has been a profound avenue of self-expression and reflection for centuries. Whether used as a tool for personal growth, creative expression, or simply a means of capturing life’s moments, journaling has something to offer for everyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, we’ve compiled a list of our 100+ favorite quotes about journaling, showcasing the wisdom and insights of those who have found meaning and purpose through the practice of journaling. These quotes about journaling will not only inspire you to start keeping a journal of your own, but also remind you of the power and value of journaling to deepen your practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn the journal, I am at ease.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Ana\u00efs<\/em> Nin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Your journal will stand as a chronicle of your growth, your hopes, your fears, your dreams, your ambitions, your sorrows, your serendipities.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Kathleen Adams<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen my journal appears, many statues must come down.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Arthur Wellesley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAll the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Barbara Kingsolver<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe very act of writing it down made her realize how easy it would be to forget, how important it would be from now on to put everything, everything, down on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Donna Tartt<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Fran\u00e7oise Sagan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWriting in a daily journal is important but the reason why I journal is because I can read my own writing after many months have passed by. I\u2019m able to reflect on my life, my actions, my behaviors, my memories and also the behavior of others around me.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Nando Prudhomme<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The form of the journal is ideal for capturing life’s tenuous relationship with time; it makes a fugue of one’s completed life.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Patrick Nathan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“A journal can offer you a place to be someone, anyone, who you want to be.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Brian Ledger<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Writing in your journal gives you a chance to go back over your day and extract meaning from a hurried meeting with a friend or retrieve the significance of some fleeting event.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Janette Rainwater<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Madeleine L\u2019Engle<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Christina Baldwin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe’re drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Keri Smith<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournals contain ten categories of life patterns: longing; fear, mastery; (intentional) silences; key influences; hidden lessons; secret gifts; challenges; unfinished business; untapped potential. Each category corresponds to a way we engage or hold back in life.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Alexandra Johnson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Writing in a journal gives me a place to report, interpret, argue, reflect, save, question, predict, unload, praise, compare, cry, laugh, draw, paint, and remember.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Luci Swindoll<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournaling is an offshoot of meditation\u2014 a type of introspection where a record of events is welcome. It doesn\u2019t have to mean the record is permanent. In fact, it\u2019s probably better as ephemeral\u2014 permanently locked behind a password. But, the fact that it exists is a comfort in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 C.J. Chilvers<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWrite hard and clear about what hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Ernest Hemingway<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“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.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Kay WalkingStick<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe first draft is just you telling yourself the story.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Terry Pratchett<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Your journal is like your best friend. You don’t have to pretend with it, you can be honest and write exactly how you feel\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Bukola Ogunwale<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI write entirely to find out what I\u2019m thinking, what I\u2019m looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear.\u201d <\/p>\n\u2014 Joan Didion<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPreserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Louisa May Alcott<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“I\u2019ll only live once, and this is a record of the life I\u2019m living.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Jason Shanahan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“I owe a good deal to this journal. By unburdening my mind on paper I feel, as it were, in some degree to get rid of it; it seems made over to a friend that hears it patiently, keeps it faithfully, and by never forgetting anything, is always ready to compare the past & present and thus to cheer & edify the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Anne Lister<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“So I often feel like the self that I construct in writing feels truer to how I think of myself than the self I\u2019m constructing in any other way.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Yaa Gyasi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Having the courage to reckon with our emotions and to rumble with our stories is the path to writing our brave new ending.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Bren\u00e9 Brown<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournaling gives you such an appreciation for the good things in your life while also helping you improve on the not-so-good things in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Steve Cicco<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 David Sedaris<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Pico Iyer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTo pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Mary Oliver<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Cecil Day-Lewis<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s by writing\u2026 by stepping back a bit from the real thing to look at it, that we are most present.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Alison Bechdel<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.”<\/p>\n\u2014 George Sand<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFill your paper with the breathings of your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 William Wordsworth<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDocumenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Carolyn V. Hamilton<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Anne Frank<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Vita Sackville-West<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournal writing gives us insights into who we are, who we were, and who we can become.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Sandra Marinella<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA writer is someone who pays attention to the world \u2014 a writer is a professional observer.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Susan Sontag<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The private contemplation that journaling provides gives us a place to examine what life really means to us \u2026 It receives the mood we’re in and preserves it for us to look at and learn from \u2026 Every time we chronicle our thoughts and activities, we are verifying our existence.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Luci Swindoll<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA journal is your completely unaltered voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Lucy Dacus<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“There is, of course, always personal satisfaction of writing down one’s own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfullness.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Anne Morrow Lindbergh<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournaling helps you to remember how strong you truly are within yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Asad Meah<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Stefan Sagmeister<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe best time to begin keeping a journal is whenever you decide to.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Hannah Hinchman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The true purpose of 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.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Danny Gregory<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA good journal entry\u2014 like a good song, or sketch, or photograph\u2014 ought to break up the habitual and lift 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Anthony Doerr<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournaling is like whispering to one\u2019s self and listening at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Mina Murray<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Michael Hyatt<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Maya Angelou<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Virginia Woolf<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Pat Conroy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Keeping a journal will absolutely change your life in ways you’ve never imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Oprah Winfrey<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Sylvia Plath<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t journal to \u2018be productive.\u2019 I don\u2019t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren\u2019t intended for anyone but me. It\u2019s the most cost-effective therapy I\u2019ve ever found.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Tim Ferriss<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“I don’t know what I think until I write it down.”<\/p>\n– Joan Didion<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOur pasts define us, yet memory is untrustworthy. By keeping a journal, I can capture those memories when they’re still reasonably fresh. Journaling helps me keep a narrative of my life. It keeps me honest with myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 John Dumas<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournaling leads people to life changes, leaps of faith, new insights, and meaningful decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Lynda Monk<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWriting is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Julia Cameron<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI like to record what\u2019s happened, how my life and relationships have developed, and to know even about the mundane stuff in life that happens, but we might otherwise forget\u2014a trip for coffee with a friend, or some good or bad luck, or a trip to the theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Andy Oldham<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPeople who keep journals have life twice.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Jessamyn West<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWriting is my way of expressing \u2013 and thereby eliminating \u2013 all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Zadie Smith<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cStart writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Louis L\u2019Amour<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Even the busiest people are never too busy to benefit from journaling for just five minutes a day.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Sophia Godkin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Journaling to me has become important to me because it allows me to be present with a gratitude mindset daily.<\/p>\n\u2014 Kevin Anderson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionized my mindset, transformed my heartset, and generally influenced in my life exponentially.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Robin S. Sharma<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Susan Sontag<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournaling gives me the ability to forget minor details and focus more on the present.”<\/p>\n\u2013 Kyle Weirauch<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“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.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Hal Elrod<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe truth is, journaling can be as simple as capturing a moment in time through a photo or arriving at a clear decision made possible by asking intentional questions.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Marc Champagne<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLife is not always extraordinary in all its details, but it is the sum of those ordinary events that add up to extraordinary lives. The journal is no different.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Journal Fodder<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The deeper benefit of keeping a journal is that it offers a way to be consistently aware or mindful.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Alexandra Johnson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“That’s the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it, not at your desk, but beyond it, out in the world, where it’s so beautiful, and complex, and painful, that sometimes, you just need to sit down and write about it.”<\/p>\n\u2014 David Sedaris<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The journal is a place to let seeds of new directions freely scatter on the page.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Ellen Bowers<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cKeeping a journal of what\u2019s going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what\u2019s important and what\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Martina Navratilova<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Dani Shapiro<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”<\/p>\n\u2013 Benjamin Franklin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Once you begin to reap the rewards of your writing, journaling stops being a burden and often becomes the activity you look forward to the most and obtain the greatest value from.”<\/p>\n\u2013 Joyce Chapman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Keeping a journal has taught me that each day holds something significant, something worth recording. My journal has reminded me again and again of the richness and abundance of my daily life, no matter how mundane or predictable some days may seem.”<\/p>\n\u2013 Kristen Webb Wright<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournaling is a way of capturing your life one day at a time. It is a wonderful way to be able to reflect on your past whether in good times or bad. It is really easy to forget how wonderful your life is in certain times, and a quick look back allows you to see the people, places visited, and get some perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 George Bonelli<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournal writing, when it becomes a ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2013 Jen Williamson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Writing is a sustaining thing.”<\/p>\n\u2014 John McPhee<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“I realized that journal writing was and is a powerful tool for personal growth, problem solving, monitoring goals, and documenting my life over time.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Bakari Chavanu<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Susan Sontag <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI journal about anything and everything I can in my life \u2013 minutiae, dreams, important mailed papers, receipts, etc. There is literally nothing that I won\u2019t put in my assorted journaling.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Margot Olson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIs not the poet bound to write his own biography? Is there any other work for him but a good journal? We do not wish to know how his imaginary hero, but how he, the actual hero, lived from day to day.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Henry David Thoreau <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I’m a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Ruth Ozeki<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWriting eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Gao Xingjian<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJournaling [\u2026] can be the go-to way you use your mind, maintain daily awareness, and take responsibility for your life.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Eric Maisel<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cKeeping a journal is the number-one best way to develop your written voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Camille Perri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Someone once said that chopping wood to make a fire warms you twice. Writing a journal is like experiencing everything twice \u2026 when you do it and when you reflect upon it as you write.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Steven Wong<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The journal is the ideal place of refuge for the inner self because it constitutes a counterworld: a world to balance the other.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Joyce Carol Oates<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhether you\u2019re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it\u2019s the same thing. What\u2019s important is you\u2019re having a relationship with your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Natalie Goldberg<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Christina Baldwin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWriting in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Robin S. Sharma<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Ana\u00efs Nin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“I have found so many sides of myself in the diaries of others. I would like it if I someday reflect future readers to themselves, provide them with examples, warnings, courage, and amusement. In these unedited glimpses of the self in others, of others in the self, is another of the covenants posterity makes with the day-to-day.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Gail Goodwin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t bend, don\u2019t water it down, don\u2019t try to make it logical, don\u2019t edit your own soul according to the fashion.<\/p>\n\u2014 Franz Kafka<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cInstructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
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“These are the days” <\/em>is the name of my main journal. This is to remind myself that “These are the days” no matter what stage of life I’m in. Every season is significant in its own way and it’s worth remembering. This is what motivates me to keep journaling daily about big and small moments alike.<\/p>\n\u2014 Kt Anderson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Journaling isn\u2019t about creating great works of literature, it\u2019s about you and how life is impacting on you.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Steve Day<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Writing in a journal activates the narrator function of our minds. Studies have suggested that simply writing down our account of a challenging experience can lower physiological reactivity and increase our sense of well-being, even if we never show what we’ve written to anyone else.”<\/p>\n\u2014 Daniel J Siegel, M.D.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wrapping Up: Share Your Favorite Quotes About Journaling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These 100+ quotes about journaling highlight the transformative power of putting thoughts and feelings into a journal. Whether used as a tool for self-discovery, creativity, or simply a means of capturing memories, keeping a journal can be a life-changing undertaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take some time to reflect on these words of wisdom and allow these quotes to inspire you to start or deepen your own journaling practice. Experiment with a few new journaling prompts<\/a> or journaling ideas<\/a> to build your journaling habit<\/a>. The process of writing and reflecting on your experiences can bring new insights, promote growth, and offer a sense of peace and clarity in our often hectic lives. So, happy journaling!<\/p>\n\n\n\n