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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…!
‘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’
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‘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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I took this photograph on my latest trip to one of my favourite places….the Greek island of Kefalonia
There are so many things I love about this image…so many stories it conjures in my mind
not to mention ….that texture !!!
The Mekong, the Monastery & the motorbike
I took this photograph in January 2020 while on a trip through Vietnam & Cambodia. We travelled along the Mekong river and stopped on this occasion to visit a Monastery which lay at the heart of a village community.
“When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending”
Brene Brown
“Creativity soars when we re-write the stories we tell ourselves”
Lisa Sonora