Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after four weeks at sea, he...

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. – Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

I wasn’t writing home. I wasn’t writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries...

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day’s events […] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginiaknocking back liquor like I drink...

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Or so it is with me. Thus my writing life consists of spells...

Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your...

I’m not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I’m not the one who gets to decide what that is, if...

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet...

It’s the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his...

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me–yes, I think I might as well admit it–fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid...

First organizing it on paper isn’t just academic, it’s an applied prerequisite for manifestation.

Am I making something worth while?I’m not sure.I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time about my life and choices making ways, into other lives, other hearts,but am I making...

I felt I had a calling in my life to be in full-time ministry, and although I was very successful in the insurance business, earning a very large six-figure income, I gave notice to my...

we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling him to see a world he didn’t even know existed.

I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the...

It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything...

These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. T will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel…

And so I just kept writing to myself.

…then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Research material can turn up anywhere – in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us...

I wrote. I wrote all the things I couldn’t say to him. I wrote about how much I believed in us. I wrote about how much I trusted God. I wrote that I was praying...

Vă e milă de mine, nu? Sunt singur, n-am un ban, sunt paralizat și abia am împlinit 28 de ani. Dar pocnesc din degete drept sub nasul vostru și, cu egală aroganță, mi-e milă mie...

There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the darkness. Rereading it was counterproductive. What I needed was a place in which...

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.

How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the...

Some days I wonder if I stopped writing about him, if I’d love him a little less.

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself.” – Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

Journal writing Helps Us Heal. That’s one of the therapeutic methods to helping us cope with hardship or painful situations in our lives. Writing in a journal allows us to make sense of things and...