“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
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ~William Wordsworth
“Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.” ~Julia Cameron
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ~Anne Frank
“Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.” ~Ted Kooser
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” ~Ernest Hemingway
“What a comfort is this journal. I tell myself to myself and throw the burden on my book and feel relieved.” ~Anne Lister
“Writing eases my suffering … writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.” ~Gao Xingjian
“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, ‘I would have loved her.'” ~Nicole Lyons