Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context. — Stephen Covey
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. — Pablo Picasso
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. — Isabel Colegate
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either. — Kevin Henkes
Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. — Jim Rohn
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. — Simone de Beauvoir
A life worth living is a life worth recording. — Jim Rohn
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. — Will Self
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. — Mark Victor Hansen
Write things down: your mother probably told you this. She’s right. — Estee Lauder
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. — Lee Iacocca
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two — Hugh B. Brown
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. — Douglas Pagels
Short Keeping A Journal Quotes
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde
My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story. — Johnny Depp
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. — Elias Canetti
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. — Francis Bacon
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. — Lord Byron
A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine. — Grace Kelly
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. — Gore Vidal
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. — E. L. Doctorow
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. — Albert Einstein
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. — Alice Childress
Keeping A Journal Image Quotes
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Lds Quotes
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. — Sheri L. Dew
God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference! — Neal A. Maxwell
Always behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like hell underwater.
If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. — Sheri L. Dew
Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free. — Thomas S. Monson
Fear is what stops you. Courage is what keeps you going.
Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead. — J. Reuben Clark
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. — Myrtle Fillmore
Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah. — Ezra Taft Benson
What Is A Quotes
What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires. — Bernie Sanders
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' — Sigmund Freud
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. — Aristotle
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. — Winston Churchill
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell
Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live. — Mother Angelica
Journal Writing Quotes
I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers. — Taylor Swift
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing. — Bob Schieffer
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. — Shannon Alder
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. — Joe Klein
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have. — Tucker Carlson
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later. — William Jackson
I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. — Taylor Swift
My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism. — Tim Cahill
I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context. — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Journaling Quotes
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all — Lala Lajpat Rai
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine! — Benito Mussolini
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased. — Walter Cronkite
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? — Hunter S. Thompson
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. — Joseph Pulitzer
In an experiment by Dr. Robert Emmons at the University of California–Davis, people who kept a ‘gratitude journal,’ a weekly record of things they felt grateful for, enjoyed better physical health, were more optimistic, exercised more regularly, and described themselves as happier than a control group who didn’t keep journals. — Marci Shimoff
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind. — Natalie Goldberg
If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down. — Jim Rohn
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin
Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences. — Thomas Merton
In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. — Susan Sontag
Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life. — Oprah Winfrey
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory. — Jim Rohn
People who keep journals have life twice — Jessamyn West
Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart. — Ted Kooser
Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine. — Oprah Winfrey
He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person. — Philip K. Dick
Keeping a journal implies hope. — Erica Jong
A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts. — David Jeremiah
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. — Joan Didion
If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you want to write something that may eventually see the light of day, that a magazine might buy or a publisher publish, then you'll have to knock off the journaling and do the grunt work that real writing requires. — Robert Masello
If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame. — Jo Coudert
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! — Fanny Burney
If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it. — Wilford Woodruff
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place. — May Sarton
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes. — Erica Jong
Writing 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. — Robin Sharma
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. — Amy Tan
Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. — William Boyd
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. — Anthony Doerr
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. — J. K. Rowling
Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying. — Kate Christensen
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down. — Sue Townsend
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind. — Eugene Delacroix
Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not. — Martina Navratilova
Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later. — Roger N. Walsh
For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness. — Oprah Winfrey
Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results. — William Stafford
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal. — Jane Austen
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. — Heather O'Reilly
Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer. — John Edward
I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need. — Jonathan Kellerman
The one-two punch of New York media calling up every agency and corporate advertiser, keeping lists of advertisers who stayed on - " i.e., with Bill O'Reilly " - and those who fled, worked. As the publisher of a center-right magazine, this is disturbing. It sets a very bad precedent about the power of advertiser pressure and sends a message as an organization that you can essentially be blackmailed into getting rid of - " no kidding! — Rush Limbaugh
I keep a journal/day planner, which really helps me stay organized and focused. — Alyssa Milano
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