Top Journal Quotes

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Journal Definition

(a.) Daily; diurnal.

(a.) A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.

(a.) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.

(a.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.

(a.) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.

(a.) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.

(a.) That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.

(a.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.

I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I'm not the one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. I'm just starting the...

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the p...

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells of languor alternating with fi...

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 blo...

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shal...

We ask ourselves: have we made progress? We are almost never aware of it. Only with effort and discipline do we become fully conscious. If we keep a journal, now and then we are startled when we perus...

Creating is like the oxygen in my air.

I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.

Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams.

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.

And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as well admit it--fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid them--in a so...

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.