50 Journal Quotes Encouraging Reflection For Wellbeing

"I realized that journal writing was and is a powerful tool for personal growth, problem solving, monitoring goals, and documenting my life over time."
- Bakari Chavanu

"Journal writing, when it becomes a ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding."
- Jen Williamson

"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."
- Joyce Chapman

"A journal is your completely unaltered voice."
- Lucy Dacus

"Sitting for even five minutes with a journal offers a rare cease-fire in the battle of daily life"
- Alexandra Johnson

"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."
- Bukola Ogunwale

"Your journal will stand as a chronicle of your growth, your hopes, your fears, your dreams, your ambitions, your sorrows, your serendipities."
- Kathleen Adams

"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."
- Kristen Webb Wright

"Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are."
- Carolyn V. Hamilton

"Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think."
- Albert Einstein

"Journaling 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."
- George Bonelli

"I never wrote things down to remember; I always wrote things down so I could forget."
- Matthew McConaughey

"All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still."
- Barbara Kingsolver

"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."
- Anne Lister

"This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution."
- Diet Eman

"Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change."
- Julia Cameron

"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

"For 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."
- Ruth Ozeki

"I don't journal to 'be productive.' I don't do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren't intended for anyone but me. It's the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found."
- Tim Ferriss

"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."
- Daniel J Siegel, M.D.

"What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out."
- Michael Hyatt

"Someone once said that chopping wood to make a fire warms you twice. Writing a journal is like experiencing everything twice… when you do it and when you reflect upon it as you write."
- Steven Wong

"Writing 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'm able to reflect on my life, my actions, my behaviors, my memories and also the behavior of others around me."
- Nando Prudhomme

"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 S. Sharma

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."
- Virginia Woolf

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
- Zig Ziglar

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes."
- Wade Boggs

"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple."
- Paulo Coelho

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson

"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

"I 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."
- David Sedaris

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Each Bullet Journal becomes another volume in the story of your life. Does it represent the life you want to live? If not, then leverage the lessons you’ve learned to change the narrative in the next volume."
- Ryder Carroll

"The power of the bullet journal is that it becomes whatever you want it to be or need it to be regardless of what season you are in."
- Ryder Carroll

"The Bullet Journal will help you declutter your packed mind so you can finally examine your thoughts from an objective distance."
- Ryder Carroll

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer."
- Susan Sontag

"You must remember that your story matters. What you write has the power to save a life, sometimes that life is your own."
- Stalina Goodwin

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
- Maya Angelou

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
- Louis L'Amour

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."
- Anne Frank

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise."
- Sylvia Plath

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you."
- Madeleine L’Engle

"You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."
- Jodi Picoult

"Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write."
- Dani Shapiro

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."
- Anaïs Nin

"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior."
- Christina Baldwin

"The journal is a place to let seeds of new directions freely scatter on the page."
- Ellen Bowers

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
- William Wordsworth

"The best time to begin keeping a journal is whenever you decide to."
- Hannah Hinchman

"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."
- Susan Sontag