70 Journal Quotes that Make You Want to Write (2021)
Writing your thoughts is powerful in many ways as these journal quotes show.
Journaling is the simple process of writing out your thoughts, beliefs, ideas, fears, worries, and anything else that you want. It could be writing a list of things you are thankful for or just recording the events of your day.
Journaling is a powerful way to reflect on the situations in your life as well as an effective form of self-care for many. These are some of the reasons why some of the most successful people throughout history have kept journals.
If you’re interested in building the habit of journaling in your own life, these journal quotes can help motivate and guide you.
Journal quotes about the benefits of journaling
1. “Journaling is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time.” – Mina Murray
2. “Journal writing, when it becomes a ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding.” – Jen Williamson
3. “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
4. “The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent.” – Susan Sontag
5. “In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.” – Susan Sontag
6. “Journaling is a great way to pay attention to “how it all came to be.” In looking back, you gain insight into (and appreciation for) your challenges, lessons, and perseverance.” – Melissa Stenginus
7. “People who keep journals have life twice.” – Jessamyn West
8. “Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That’s why I keep a journal – not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it’s like your gold mine when you start writing.” – Jim Harrison
9. “Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.” – Christina Baldwin
10. “We can only open our hearts to those we utterly trust, such as the accepting page.” – Gillie Bolton
11. “If kids reflect on their days, they will become better problem-solvers of life.” – Trevor Carss
12. “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
Journal quotes about self-care
13. “I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care to reflect on my day and write words that inspire me.” –Franchesca Ramsey
14. “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open” – Natalie Goldberg
15. “What a comfort is this journal I tell myself to myself and throw the burden on my book and feel relieved.” – Anne Lister
16. “Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.” — Julia Cameron
17. “Journaling can be an excellent way to increase self-awareness, discover and change habits.” – Akiroq Brost
18. “I write entirely to find out what I am thinking, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” – Joan Didion
19. “Journaling is paying attention to the inside for the purpose of living well from the inside out.” – Lee Wise
20. “This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution.” – Diet Eman
21. “Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.” – Carolyn V. Hamilton
22. “Writing eases my suffering. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.” – Gao Xingjian
23. “In the journal I am at ease.” – Anais Nin
24. “Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.” – Julia Cameron
25. “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
26. “Write hard and clear about what hurts.” — Ernest Hemingway
27. “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
Powerful journal quotes
28. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – Anne Frank
29. “A journal is your completely unaltered voice.” – Lucy Dacus
30. “Writing is powerful communication: perhaps even more so than speech, as it does not disappear on the breath.” – Gillie Bolton
31. “Journal writing gives us insights into who we are, who we were, and who we can become.” – Sandra Marinella
32. “Keeping a journal: The short entries are often as dry as instant tea. Writing them down is like pouring hot water over them to release their aroma.” – Ernst Jünger
33. “Writing in a journal each day allows you to direct your focus to what you accomplished, what you’re grateful for and what you’re committed to doing better tomorrow. This, you are more deeply enjoy your journey each day.” – Hal Elrod
34. “You review the past to assess the present and then determine what actions are necessary to change your future. You take what you know and apply it to how you want to grow. Thus, the power of journaling.” – Melissa Steginus
35. “This is what the best journals look like. They aren’t for the reader. They are for the writer. To slow the mind down. To wage peace with oneself” – Ryan Holiday
36. “Putting pen to paper is a mystical way to access your most profound truths” – Marie Forleo
37. “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. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.” – Kay Walkingstick
38. “If you haven’t been journaling through this, now is a good time to start. One day, you and people who love and loved you and people who will never know you may want to look back to understand how you survived.” – Darnell Lamont Walker
39. “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
40. “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
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of writing quotes that will inspire you to begin your own writing journey.
Journal quotes that will make your day
41. “I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old.” – Maya Angelou
42. “I wanted to write in my journal but couldn’t bring myself to. There are so many shades to what passed through me in those days. And I would shrink from committing myself to paper because the light would change before the word was out, the ink was dry.” – Audre Lorde
43. “A personal journal is an ideal environment in which to become. It is a perfect place for you to think, feel, discover, expand, remember, and dream.” – Brad Wilcox
44. “Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.” – Isaac Watts
45. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour
46. “And so I just kept writing to myself.” – Kimberly Novosel
47. “Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain.” – Jack London
48. “The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keeping a journal, I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words – without locks, open on my shelves.” – Terry Tempest Williams
49. “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth
50. “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” — Flannery O’Connor
More journal quotes and sayings
51. “The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.” – Robin S. Sharma
52. “I like to meditate, take baths at home with essential oils and salts and write in a journal.” – Camille Kostek
53. “One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.” – Robert Wilson
54. “When I write notes in my journal, I’m just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.” – Natasha Trethewey
55. “I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.” – Valerie Bertinelli
56. “Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.” – Jami Attenberg
57. “Keeping a journal is the number-one best way to develop your written voice.” – Camille Perri
58. “I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.” – Tash Sultana
59. “When my journal appears, many statues must come down.” – Duke of Wellington
60. “I try and journal every day, and that’s where a lot of my lyric comes from.” – Jessie Baylin
Inspirational Journal Quotes To Get You Going
61. “Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession.” ― Alexandra Johnson.
62. “What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out.” — Michael Hyatt
63. “Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.” — Christina Baldwin
64. “Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit’s illuminations.” — John Piper
65. “Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.” — Michael Bell
66. “My journal is my life’s companion.” — Christina Baldwin
67. “The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.” — Virginia Woolf
68. “When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.” — Christina Baldwin
69. “A few italics really do relieve your feelings.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery
70. “Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you.” — Mae West.
Which of these journal quotes is your favorite?
From helping you see the good things in your life to helping you work through issues and struggles that you face, journaling can help you in all areas of your life.
There’s something nice about being able to record your thoughts in private and work through them. Journals can also help you remember the past.
We’ve learned a lot from the journals of others such as Anne Frank. But even if your journals don’t someday make the top seller list, they are something that you can look back on to see the progress you’ve made in your own life.
Which of these journal quotes and sayings is your favorite? Do you have any other insightful quotes to add? Let us know in the comment section below.
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