50 Inspirational Journal Quotes to Ignite Your Creativity and Self-Discovery

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life"

- J. K. Rowling

"Journal writing gives us insights into who we are, who we were, and who we can become."

- Sandra Marinella

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it."

- Susan Sontag

"Your journal will stand as a chronicle of your growth, your hopes, your fears, your dreams, your ambitions, your sorrows, your serendipities."

- Kathleen Adams

"Writing in a daily journal is important but the reason why I journal is because I can read my own writing after many months have passed by. I’m able to reflect on my life, my actions, my behaviors, my memories and also the behavior of others around me."

- Nando Prudhomme

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you."

- Madeleine L’Engle

"Writing in a journal gives me a place to report, interpret, argue, reflect, save, question, predict, unload, praise, compare, cry, laugh, draw, paint, and remember."

- Luci Swindoll

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Journal what you love, what you hate, what’s in your head, what’s important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see."

- Kay WalkingStick

"Your journal is like your best friend. You don’t have to pretend with it, you can be honest and write exactly how you feel"

- Bukola Ogunwale

"Having the courage to reckon with our emotions and to rumble with our stories is the path to writing our brave new ending."

- Brené Brown

"Journaling gives you such an appreciation for the good things in your life while also helping you improve on the not-so-good things in your life."

- Steve Cicco

"The important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love."

- Pico Iyer

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

- Mary Oliver

"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

- Cecil Day-Lewis

"It’s by writing… by stepping back a bit from the real thing to look at it, that we are most present."

- Alison Bechdel

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

- William Wordsworth

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."

- Anne Frank

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by."

- Vita Sackville-West

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer."

- Susan Sontag

"The private contemplation that journaling provides gives us a place to examine what life really means to us … It receives the mood we’re in and preserves it for us to look at and learn from … Every time we chronicle our thoughts and activities, we are verifying our existence."

- Luci Swindoll

"A journal is your completely unaltered voice."

- Lucy Dacus

"Journaling helps you to remember how strong you truly are within yourself."

- Asad Meah

"The true purpose of journaling is to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special."

- Danny Gregory

"A good journal entry— like a good song, or sketch, or photograph— ought to break up the habitual and lift away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love letter to the world."

- Anthony Doerr

"What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out."

- Michael Hyatt

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us."

- Virginia Woolf

"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself."

- Pat Conroy

"Keeping a journal will absolutely change your life in ways you’ve never imagined."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise."

- Sylvia Plath

"I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found."

- Tim Ferriss

"I don’t know what I think until I write it down."

- Joan Didion

"Our pasts define us, yet memory is untrustworthy. By keeping a journal, I can capture those memories when they’re still reasonably fresh. Journaling helps me keep a narrative of my life. It keeps me honest with myself."

- John Dumas

"Journaling leads people to life changes, leaps of faith, new insights, and meaningful decisions."

- Lynda Monk

"Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change."

- Julia Cameron

"People who keep journals have life twice."

- Jessamyn West

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

- Louis L’Amour

"I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionized my mindset, transformed my heartset, and generally influenced in my life exponentially."

- Robin S. Sharma

"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."

- Susan Sontag

"Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals."

- Hal Elrod

"The deeper benefit of keeping a journal is that it offers a way to be consistently aware or mindful."

- Alexandra Johnson

"That’s the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it, not at your desk, but beyond it, out in the world, where it’s so beautiful, and complex, and painful, that sometimes, you just need to sit down and write about it."

- David Sedaris

"Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write."

- Dani Shapiro

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Keeping a journal has taught me that each day holds something significant, something worth recording. My journal has reminded me again and again of the richness and abundance of my daily life, no matter how mundane or predictable some days may seem."

- Kristen Webb Wright

"Journaling is a way of capturing your life one day at a time. It is a wonderful way to be able to reflect on your past whether in good times or bad. It is really easy to forget how wonderful your life is in certain times, and a quick look back allows you to see the people, places visited, and get some perspective."

- George Bonelli

"Journal writing, when it becomes a ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding."

- Jen Williamson

"I realized that journal writing was and is a powerful tool for personal growth, problem solving, monitoring goals, and documenting my life over time."

- Bakari Chavanu

"Is not the poet bound to write his own biography? Is there any other work for him but a good journal? We do not wish to know how his imaginary hero, but how he, the actual hero, lived from day to day."

- Henry David Thoreau

"For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I’m a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still."

- Ruth Ozeki

"Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence."

- Gao Xingjian

"Keeping a journal is the number-one best way to develop your written voice."

- Camille Perri

"Someone once said that chopping wood to make a fire warms you twice. Writing a journal is like experiencing everything twice … when you do it and when you reflect upon it as you write."

- Steven Wong

"The journal is the ideal place of refuge for the inner self because it constitutes a counterworld: a world to balance the other."

- Joyce Carol Oates

"Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind."

- Natalie Goldberg

"Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection."

- Christina Baldwin

"Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself."

- Robin S. Sharma

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."

- Anaïs Nin

"Don’t bend, don’t water it down, don’t try to make it logical, don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion."

- Franz Kafka

"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

- Mary Oliver

"The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal."

- Robin Sharma

"In the journal, I am at ease."

- Anaïs Nin

"Writing in a journal each day allows you to direct your focus to what you accomplished, what you’re grateful for and what you’re committed to doing better tomorrow. Thus, you more deeply enjoy your journey each day."

- Hal Elrod

"A breed apart from the diarists who write simply to collect the days or preserve impressions of foreign places are those who set out in their books to discover who they really are. These are generally very serious people, more in the way of pilgrims, with inward destinations, than mere travelers. Some of them are after the sight of God; others are out to realize their full ‘potential,’ spiritual and otherwise; and some of them are carrying burdens of suffering they are unsure they can shoulder—they want to use their diaries to test, and add to, their strength."

- Thomas Mallon

"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."

- Natalie Goldberg

"I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies."

- Anne Frank

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later"

- Og Mandino

"Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life"

- Alvin Toffler

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"

- Lao Tzu

"Tough times never last, but tough people do"

- Robert Schuller

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning"

- Robert Kiyosaki

"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade"

- Dale Carnegie

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it"

- Barack Obama

"Wisdom begins in wonder"

- Socrates

"Whatever you are, be a good one"

- Abraham Lincoln

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"

- Aesop

"Determine your priorities and focus on them."

- Eileen McDargh

"The mind is everything. What you think you become"

- Buddha

"Focus on an ocean of positives, not a puddle of negatives"

- Kevin Ansbro

"The difference in winning and losing is most often…not quitting"

- Walt Disney

"Whoever is happy will make others happy"

- Anne Frank

"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else"

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success"

- Diego Val

"There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions"

- Dalai Lama

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"

- Aristotle

"Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results"

- Dennis Waitley

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will."

- Epictetus

"I’d far rather be happy than right any day"

- Douglas Adams

"Life is too short to be unhappy"

- Roy T. Bennett

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful"

- Joshua J. Marine

"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present"

- Roy Bennet

"Happiness is a direction, not a place"

- Sydney J. Harris

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things"

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson"

- Alan Cohen

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is"

- Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself"

- Chinese proverb

"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change"

- Charles Darwin

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

- Stephen King

"Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong"

- Mandy Hale

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often"

- Winston Churchill

"Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone"

- Billy Cox

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills"

- Chinese proverb

"The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts, it gives you what you demand with your actions"

- Steve Maraboli

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change"

- Stephen Hawking

"If you want to change the world, go home and love your family"

- Mother Teresa

"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."

- Khalil Gibran

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money"

- Abigail Van Buren

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind"

- C.S. Lewis

"Use this time of year for forgiveness and walk into the new year with a clear head and strong heart"

- Dr Jasmine Jagger

"The very act of writing it down made her realize how easy it would be to forget, how important it would be from now on to put everything, everything, down on paper."

- Donna Tartt

"The harder I work, the luckier I get"

- Gary Player

"Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it"

- Natalie Goldberg

"There is, of course, always personal satisfaction of writing down one’s own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined"

- Andrew Hendrixson

"My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life."

- Stefan Sagmeister

"The best time to begin keeping a journal is whenever you decide to."

- Hannah Hinchman

"All happiness depends on courage and works"

- Honore de Balzac

"Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear"

- Taylor Swift

"Smile, breathe and go slowly"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- Maya Angelou

"The Way to get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing"

- Walt Disney

"A heart full of joy is better than a hand full of coins"

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Wherever you are, be totally there"

- Eckart Tolle

"Life Is What Happens To You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans"

- Allen Saunders

"Even the busiest people are never too busy to benefit from journaling for just five minutes a day."

- Sophia Godkin

"Journaling to me has become important to me because it allows me to be present with a gratitude mindset daily."

- Kevin Anderson

"Finding happiness is easy: stop being busy"

- Maxime Lagacé

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do"

- Michael Porter

"Journaling gives me the ability to forget minor details and focus more on the present."

- Kyle Weirauch

"The truth is, journaling can be as simple as capturing a moment in time through a photo or arriving at a clear decision made possible by asking intentional questions."

- Marc Champagne

"Life is not always extraordinary in all its details, but it is the sum of those ordinary events that add up to extraordinary lives. The journal is no different."

- Journal Fodder

"The journal is a place to let seeds of new directions freely scatter on the page."

- Ellen Bowers

"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

- Susan Sontag

"You don’t need a floodlight to bring light into the darkness – a single flame will do"

- Clare Josa

"Knowing what you need to do to improve your life takes wisdom. Pushing yourself to do it takes courage"

- Mel Robbins

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"

- Winston S. Churchill

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action"

- Tony Robbins

"Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with your hands shaking. Just start"

- Mel Robbins

"Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it"

- Mark Zuckerberg

"Your Journal is like your best friend. You don’t have to pretend with it, you can be honest and write exactly how you feel."

- Bukola Ogunwale

"There is no right time, there is only right now"

- Mel Robbins

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm"

- Winston Churchill

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

- Steve Jobs

"Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go"

- Romeo Miller

"Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to"

- Robert Brault

"I have found so many sides of myself in the diaries of others. I would like it if I someday reflect future readers to themselves, provide them with examples, warnings, courage, and amusement. In these unedited glimpses of the self in others, of others in the self, is another of the covenants posterity makes with the day-to-day."

- Gail Goodwin

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure"

- Paulo Coelho

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe"

- Leymah Gbowee

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going"

- Jim Rohn

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending"

- Maria Robinson

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals"

- Zig Ziglar

"You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page."

- Jodi Picoult

"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step"

- Muhammad Ali

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory"

- Rita Mae Brown

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for"

- Maureen Dowd

"There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations"

- Jodi Picoult

"Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can’t make a rainbow without a little rain"

- Zion Lee

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way"

- Martin Luther King Jr

"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."

- Susan Sontag

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get"

- Dale Carnegie

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall"

- Serena Williams

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out"

- Robert Collier

"Writing is a sustaining thing."

- John McPhee

"Joy is not in things; it is in us"

- Richard Wagn

"A journal can offer you a place to be someone, anyone, who you want to be."

- Brian Ledger

"Writing in your journal gives you a chance to go back over your day and extract meaning from a hurried meeting with a friend or retrieve the significance of some fleeting event."

- Janette Rainwater

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer"

- Albert Camus

"A year from now you may wish you had started today"

- Karen Lamb

"Nothing will work unless you do"

- Maya Angelou

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress"

- Frederick Douglass

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

- Joan Didion

"Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell."

- Louisa May Alcott

"I’ll only live once, and this is a record of the life I’m living."

- Jason Shanahan

"Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try"

- Jack Canfield

"Being happy doesn’t mean you’re perfect. It just means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections"

- K.B. Indiana

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"

- Aristotle

"Once you begin to reap the rewards of your writing, journaling stops being a burden and often becomes the activity you look forward to the most and obtain the greatest value from."

- Joyce Chapman

"A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for"

- Albert Einstein

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it’s done right"

- Walt Disney

"Be like a tree. Let the dead leaves drop"

- Rumi

"Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop."

- George Sand

"From error to error one discovers the entire truth"

- Sigmund Freud

"Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are."

- Carolyn V. Hamilton

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty"

- Maya Angelou

"Logic gets you from A to B, imagination gets you anywhere"

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t mistake activity with achievement"

- John Wooden

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep"

- Scott Adams

"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting"

- Buddha

"Choose people who lift you up"

- Michelle Obama

"You are your choices"

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"An obstacle is often a stepping stone"

- William Prescott

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow"

- Helen Keller

"The scariest moment is always just before you start"

- Stephen King

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started"

- John Wooden

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble."

- Shah Rukh Khan

"Successful people don’t waste their time looking at what others are doing, they’re too busy focusing on their own goals"

- Joel Osteen

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor"

- Truman Capote

"Learn to be calm and you will always be happy"

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down"

- Stephen Richards

"Anyone who doesn’t make mistakes isn’t working hard enough"

- Wes Roberts

"You always pass failure on the way to success"

- Mickey Rooney

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing"

- John Powell

"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear"

- Richard Bach

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one"

- Elbert Hubbard

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation"

- Herman Melville

"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior."

- Christina Baldwin

"We’re drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it."

- Keri Smith

"Mistakes are the stairs we climb to reach success"

- Tim Fargo

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect"

- Bruce Lee

"I owe a good deal to this journal. By unburdening my mind on paper I feel, as it were, in some degree to get rid of it; it seems made over to a friend that hears it patiently, keeps it faithfully, and by never forgetting anything, is always ready to compare the past & present and thus to cheer & edify the future."

- Anne Lister

"I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live."

- Françoise Sagan

"To become a queen, you have to give up playing the princess"

- E. Peterson

"Keeping a journal of what’s going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what’s important and what’s not."

- Martina Navratilova

"My aim in life is not to judge"

- Jeanne Moreau

"The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I’d hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink."

- Rachel L. Schade

"Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else."

- C. S. Lewis

"If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it."

- Beverly Cleary

"I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say."

- Flannery O’Connor

"What would you write if you weren’t afraid?"

- Mary Karr

"Keep writing, and one day you might just become a great writer."

- Pablo Picasso

"You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream"

- C.S.Lewis

"Think big when you set your goals. Dare to think big and then set a series of smaller goals to get you there"

- Les Brown

"Goals Should Never Be Easy, They Should Force You To Work, Even If They Are Uncomfortable At The Time"

- Michael Phelps

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes"

- Andrew Carnegie

"There is do and do not, there is no try"

- Yoda

"It isn’t what you do, but how you do it."

- John Wooden

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right"

- Napoleon Hill

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra"

- Jimmy Johnson

"Done is better than perfect"

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Do What You Can With All You Have, Wherever You Are"

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it"

- Dr. Phil

"Persevere and get it done"

- George Allen Sr

"Every morning is a fresh start. Wake up with a thankful heart"

- Kristen Butler

"We tend to get what we expect"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want."

- Dan Stanford

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."

- Anais Nin

"Journaling is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time."

- Mina Murray

"The most important things in life aren’t things"

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"Owning less is great, wanting less is better"

- Joshua Becker

"Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would"

- E.V.

"I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it."

- Chinua Achebe

"This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution."

- Diet Eman

"I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking."

- David Sedaris

"Every flower blooms in its own time"

- Ken Petti

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms"

- Zen Shin

"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."

- Terry Pratchett

"Paper is to write things down that we need to remember."

- Albert Einstein

"A write is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave."

- Oscar Wilde

"I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like."

- David Sedaris

"Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is to keep going when you really feel like giving up"

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up"

"I love who I’ve been, but I really love who I’m becoming"

"Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile"

"Stay true to you and you will end up incredibly happy"

"The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of everyday"

"The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go"

"The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have"

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts"

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony"

"Start each day with a grateful heart"

"There is always something to be thankful for"

"Be thankful for what you have, be fearless for what you want"

"Give thanks, with a grateful heart"

"My life isn’t perfect, but I am thankful for everything I have"

"A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles"

"Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more"

"I’m thankful for all of it. The highs. The lows. The blessings. The lessons. The setbacks. The comebacks."

"A thankful heart is a happy heart"

"Gratitude helps you see what is there instead of what isn’t"

"We can choose to be grateful, no matter what"

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude"

"Enjoy life. It’s a gift. Unwrap it with gratitude and love"

"Live everyday with an attitude of gratitude"

"Live simply, dream big, be grateful, give love"

"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot"

"It is not happy people who are thankful, it is thankful people who are happy"

"Grateful for small things, big things and everything in between"

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for"

"Choose to be grateful"

"Gratitude is a choice. We can choose to be grateful"

"The best things in life are the people we love"

"Collect moments – not things"

"There’s no place like home"

"Enjoy the little things in life for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things"

"Every next level of your life will demand a different you"

"The memories we make with our family is everything"

"The best is yet to come"

"A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise"

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

"Kindness is spreading sunshine into other people’s lives regardless of the weather"

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet"

"Find happiness in ordinary things"

"Be a voice. Not an echo"

"Stars can’t shine without darkness"

"Sometimes you just need to go off the grid and get your soul right"

"Life becomes beautiful when you learn to be as good to yourself as you are to others"

"Be patient with yourself, nothing in nature blooms all year"

"Throw kindness around like confetti"

"Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most"

"It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice"

"Happiness is a state of mind"

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection"

"Happiness lies in perspective"

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you will miss them"

"When you’re happy you enjoy the music, when you’re sad you understand the lyrics"

"If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal"

"There is nothing so stable as change"

"Exist to be happy, not to impress"

"Be thankful for the troubles you don’t have"

"Be kind, be thoughtful, be genuine but most of all be thankful"

"Happiness blooms from within"

"Slow and steady wins the race"

"A little progress each day adds up to big results"

"Don’t find fault, find a remedy."

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you"

"I’m strong because I’ve been weak"

"Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity"

"Those who wish to sing always find a song"

"It won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it"

"No rain. No flowers"

"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself"

"Dreams don’t work unless you do"

"Do what is right, not what is easy"

"Goals are dreams with deadlines"

"Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock"

"Grow through what you go through"

"Own less. Do more"

"Great things never came from comfort zones"

"Motivation will always beat mere talent"

"Inhale confidence, exhale doubt"

"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success"

"It’s always seems impossible until its done"

"Expect nothing and appreciate everything"

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right"

"Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I"

"Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it"

"Fewer things. More peace"

"Focus on the good"

"Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds"

"A negative mind will never give you a positive life"

"A few bad chapters do not mean your story is over"

"Accept the challenge so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory"

"If you have no destination, you’ll never get there"

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star"

"Busy is a choice stressed is a choice joy is a choice. Choose well"

"Feel the fear and do it anyway"

"Never give up on the things that make you smile."

"Stop doubting yourself, work hard, make it happen"

"Don’t be busy, be productive"

"Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined"

"You don’t need more space. You need less stuff"

"Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most"

"If you get tired, learn to rest. Not to quit"

"Going halfway never gets you anywhere. Go all the way or don’t go at all"

"Go the extra mile – it’s never crowded"

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear"

"A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great year"

"You can totally do this"

"Do it with passion or not at all"

"Journaling [...] can be the go-to way you use your mind, maintain daily awareness, and take responsibility for your life."

"One small positive thought can change your whole day."

"Sometimes the only paper will listen to you."

"Thankful for sweet friends like you"

"Thankful and grateful"

"Don’t be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you will probably end up gaining something better"

"Grateful, thankful, blessed"