Quotes
I love love love a good quote !!
Here I’m sharing some of the quotes that have struck a chord or inspired me in some way.
Quotes… inspire, they motivate, they stimulate, they can be timeless and find new ways to challenge us & our thinking, they can sometimes manage to distil complicated concepts and ideas, they can drill down to the core of a concept, an idea, or value. This, for me, means they can make great jumping off places for journaling.
I used many quotes in the three free Journaling projects which I have run in the past. If you missed any of these, you’ll find a free PDF version of each of the Journal projects in the Free Stuff section of my web site.
Below you will find a selection of some of my favourite quotes and I’ll be adding a new one every week which you could use as a journaling prompt if it speaks to you. Or you might want to find out a little more about the author of the quote.
Occasionally, in place of a quote I may share an image instead . As Carl Jung said….”The soul speaks in image”.
An image can speak a thousand words and each one of us will respond to an image in our own way, making images another great jumping off place for working in our journals, either responding to the image with words, writing, or with an image of our own.
Enjoy…!
“My hearts desire was freedom…400 years ago they’d have burned me as a witch or dunked me like a big biscuit”
Kathy Burke 1964 –
“What a comfort is this Journal. I tell myself to myself and throw the burden on my book and feel relieved”
Anne Lister 1791 – 1840
‘Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place’
Paulo Coelho
‘Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties’
Erich Fromm
‘The things that excite you aren’t random. They are connected to your purpose. Follow them’
unknown
‘We have to dare to be ourselves however frightening or strange that self may prove to be’
May Sarton
The Cave
Kefalonia, Greece 2023
What lies inside ?
An Apple
Hanchey Temple
Another photo from Cambodia 2020 on the banks of the River Mekong
There’s so much I could say about this image
Don’t Cry
A photo of wall/street art that I took on a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico in 2018
‘No Me Llores’
I’ve heard it translated as ‘Don’t Cry’ and ‘No more Tears’
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