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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.
Up until the end of 2023 I added a new quote here every week. Occasionally, in place of a quote I shared an image instead . As Carl Jung said….”The soul speaks in image”.
Since then I’ve taken something of a break from adding new content on here but now (May 2024) seemed a good time to re-start. Don’t ask me why now, but we are not all hard wired to make new beginnings, to start new projects at the beginning of the year on January 1st. Maybe you can relate to that ?
I’ve decided I’m going to share one new quote every month, at the beginning of the month. I went through my index card library of quotes and instinctively pulled out the ones that ‘spoke’ to me in the moment. As I reached the end of my library, I counted how many I’d pulled out….12 as it turns out ! Perfect. I’ll share one each month in the order I pulled them out, so quite ‘random’.
I hope you enjoy reading them and perhaps you might feel inspired to use each one as a starting point to work in your own journal.
Enjoy…!
‘To write is above all to construct a self. Journal entries and life histories as well as fictions poems and plays are variations on the most fundamental human need to know oneself deeply and in relation to the world.’
Deena Metzger
‘It is in a journal that many writers for the first time dare to take the risk of writing honestly.’
Pat Schneider
(Writing alone and with others. p.68)
‘when we become aware that we are telling ourselves stories, we begin to have a a choice about what stories we are telling and that is the beginning of authoring our own existence.’
Dawna Morkova
(I will not die and unlived life; reclaiming purpose and passion. p.125)
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us”
Jane Goodall
“Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world & the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer”
Joseph Campbell
“There are no ‘most women’ and not to be one, through disinclination or disability even, is not to be a personal failure: the failure lies in the expectations of others”
Janet Frame 1924 – 2004
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do”
Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
“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