50 Inspirational Quotes About Journaling to Ignite Your Writing Journey

"We all need self-care practices, especially at this time, that can help us tap into our optimism, hope, healing and well-being. Expressive writing, where you express your thoughts and feelings, is a powerful self-care practice."

- Lynda Monk

"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

"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

"You must remember that your story matters. What you write has the power to save a life, sometimes that life is your own."

- Stalina Goodwin

"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

"Writing is a beautiful way to let out pain. When you put your story out there, you release it. Once it is no longer buried or stuck within you, you are free to move forward."

- Sandra Marinella

"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

"Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you’d never imagine."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Jen Williamson

"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

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior."

- Christina Baldwin

"Journals contain ten categories of life patterns: longing; fear, mastery; (intentional) silences; key influences; hidden lessons; secret gifts; challenges; unfinished business; untapped potential. Each category corresponds to a way we engage or hold back in life."

- Alexandra Johnson

"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

"Journaling is an offshoot of meditation— a type of introspection where a record of events is welcome. It doesn’t have to mean the record is permanent. In fact, it’s probably better as ephemeral— permanently locked behind a password. But, the fact that it exists is a comfort in itself."

- C.J. Chilvers

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Susan Sontag

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

- Barbara Kingsolver

"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

"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

"I like to record what’s happened, how my life and relationships have developed, and to know even about the mundane stuff in life that happens, but we might otherwise forget—a trip for coffee with a friend, or some good or bad luck, or a trip to the theatre."

- Andy Oldham

"People who keep journals have life twice."

- Jessamyn West

"Writing is my way of expressing – and thereby eliminating – all the various ways we can be wrong-headed."

- Zadie Smith

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

- Louis L'Amour

"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

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Susan Sontag

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

- Kyle Weirauch

"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 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

"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

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

- Ellen Bowers

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Writing is a sustaining thing."

- John McPhee

"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

"I journal about anything and everything I can in my life – minutiae, dreams, important mailed papers, receipts, etc. There is literally nothing that I won’t put in my assorted journaling."

- Margot Olson

"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

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

- Eric Maisel

"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

"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 Sharma

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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 Godwin

"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

"Journaling isn’t about creating great works of literature, it’s about you and how life is impacting on you."

- Steve Day

"Writing in a journal activates the narrator function of our minds. Studies have suggested that simply writing down our account of a challenging experience can lower physiological reactivity and increase our sense of well-being, even if we never show what we’ve written to anyone else."

- Daniel J Siegel, M.D.

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

- Flannery O'Connor

"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

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

- Sandra Marinella

"In the journal, I am at ease."

- Anaïs Nin

"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

"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 forgetfullness."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

- Asad Meah

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

- Stefan Sagmeister

"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

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

- Mina Murray

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

- Michael Hyatt

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Virginia Woolf

"One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide."

- Brené Brown

"We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not."

- Julia Cameron

"Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context."

- Stephen Covey

"I’ve always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I’m traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up is pull out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts."

- Gloria Reuben

"If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent."

- Susan Sontag

"Each Bullet Journal becomes another volume in the story of your life. Does it represent the life you want to live? If not, then leverage the lessons you’ve learned to change the narrative in the next volume."

- Ryder Carroll

"Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what."

- Julia Cameron

"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

"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

"The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found."

- Tim Ferriss

"For years I’ve been advocating the power and pleasure of being grateful. I kept a gratitude journal for a full decade without fail—and urged you all to do the same."

- Oprah Winfrey

"My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible."

- Dawna Markova

"Journaling can be an excellent way to increase self-awareness, discover and change habits."

- Akiroq Brost

"When I look back on my personal story through my journals, it struck me my words had an unmatched power to heal me. To change me."

- Sandra Marinella

"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

"We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. Writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. We should write because writing is good for the soul."

- Julia Cameron

"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

"I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time."

- Mina Murray’s journal entry from the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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

- Natalie Goldberg

"You must remember that your story matters. What you write has the power to save a life – sometimes that life is your own."

- Stalina Goodwin

"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

"We begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display."

- Julia Cameron

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

- Rachel L. Schade

"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

"I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it."

- Virginia Woolf

"When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part of making sense of who I am."

- Amy Tan

"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

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Sitting for even five minutes with a journal offers a rare cease-fire in the battle of daily life."

- Alexandra Johnson

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

- Diet Eman

"We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own."

- Julia Cameron

"Tears are words that need to be written."

- Paulo Coelho

"Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat."

- Warsan Shire

"Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession."

- Alexandra Johnson

"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. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

- Franz Kafka

"Document your dreams. Sketch that shape you saw. Write those lyrics before they fade out."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you’ll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books."

- Henry David Thoreau

"What a comfort is this journal. I tell myself to myself and throw the burden on my book and feel relieved."

- Anne Lister

"Writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things – childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves – that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers."

- Salman Rushdie

"Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later."

- Roger N. Walsh

"As there are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page."

- Terry Tempest Williams

"A good journal entry- like a good song, or sketch, or photograph- ought to break up the habitual and life 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

"The true purpose of illustrated 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

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

- Mary Oliver

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

- Hannah Hinchman

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

- Carolyn V. Hamilton

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

- Mary Oliver

"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

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

- Susan Sontag

"Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter. And lead pencil markings endure longer than memory."

- Jack London

"If kids reflect on their days, they will become better problem-solvers of life."

- Trevor Carss

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

- Mary Karr

"Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession"

- Alexandra Johnson

"Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge."

- Isaac Watts

"He said, You’ll write it not because there’s no possibility it’ll be found but because it costs too much to not write it."

- China Miéville

"But I promise you that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations."

- Pres. Spencer W. Kimball

"The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments."

- Virginia Woolf

"Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever."

- Will Self

"The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he might one day have to read it. He hopes, though, that the flaws in his earlier entries will be balanced by the progress he is able to see."

- Paul C. Nagel

"Keeping a journal: The short entries are often as dry as instant tea. Writing them down is like pouring hot water over them to release their aroma."

- Ernst Jünger

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

- William Wordsworth

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Stephen King

"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 Bennett

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

- Albert Einstein

"joy is better than a hand full of coins"

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Terry Pratchett

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Buddha

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

- Pablo Picasso

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

- Pablo Picasso

"I guess in my diary I’m not afraid to be boring. It’s not my job to entertain anyone in my diary."

- David Sedaris

"He captures memories because if he forgets them, it’s as though they didn’t happen."

- Donald Miller

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

- Oscar Wilde

"I write awe-thoughts flowing in my mind."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think."

- Albert Einstein

"The scariest moment is always just before you start"

- Stephen King

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started"

- John Wooden

"The harder I work, the luckier I get"

- Gary Player

"Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul"

- Luther Burbank

"A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome"

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

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

- Joel Osteen

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Stephen Richards

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

- Serena Williams

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"

- Helen Keller

"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it"

- Lou Holtz

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving"

- Albert Einstein

"Life is the sum of all your choices"

- Albert Camus

"Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal"

- Les Brown

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong"

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there"

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better"

- Jim Rohn

"All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel"

- Demi Lovato

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination"

- Jimmy Dean

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change"

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Alvin Toffler

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Albert Einstein

"Tough times never last, but tough people do"

- Robert Schuller

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

- J. K. Rowling

"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

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Mel Robbins

"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

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

- Jack Canfield

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

- Mel Robbins

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

- Maria Robinson

"An obstacle is often a stepping stone"

- William Prescott

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

- Robert Collier

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome"

- William James

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

- Karen Lamb

"Nothing will work unless you do"

- Maya Angelou

"Don’t make excuses, don’t blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life"

- Joel Osteen

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful"

- Jim Carrey

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Albert Einstein

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Every flower must grow through dirt"

- Laurie Jean Sennott

"Every flower blooms in its own time"

- Ken Petti

"The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days"

- Robert Leighton

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

- Anais Nin

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

- Kristen Butler

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

- Albert Camus

"Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots"

- Shannon Mullen

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

- Dan Stanford

"Wherever you are, be totally there"

- Eckhart Tolle

"The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult"

- Marquise du Deffand

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

- Albert Einstein

"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it justs blooms"

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Don’t mistake activity with achievement"

- John Wooden

"The man who has no imagination has no wings"

- Muhammad Ali

"Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain"

- Joseph Campbell

"You are your choices"

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"You will never change what you tolerate"

- Joel Osteen

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen"

- Deep Roy

"Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake"

- Sara Raasch

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor"

- Truman Capote

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits"

- Brian Tracy

"Wisdom begins in wonder"

- Socrates

"Whatever you are, be a good one"

- Abraham Lincoln

"Smile, breathe and go slowly"

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Aesop

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

- Alan Cohen

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

- Rumi

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

- C.S. Lewis

"All happiness depends on courage and works"

- Honore de Balzac

"Life is too short to be unhappy"

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Taylor Swift

"Happiness is a direction, not a place"

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Dr. Jasmine Jagger

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

- Oscar Wilde

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden"

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Choose people who lift you up"

- Michelle Obama

"When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do"

- Walt Disney

"Simplify. Remove steps. Remove options. Remove instructions. Remove clutter"

- Gabor Cselle

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best"

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

- Abigail van Buren

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection"

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

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

"It’s always seems impossible until its done"

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"

"Feel the fear and do it anyway"

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

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

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

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

"Difficult roads often leads to beautiful destinations"

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

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

"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"

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

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

"Celebrate the small things and our lives become bigger than ever"

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

"Throw kindness around like confetti"

"Stars can’t shine without darkness"

"Great things never came from comfort zones"

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

"Slow and steady wins the race"

"Inhale confidence, exhale doubt"

"Start each day with a grateful heart"

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

"A thankful heart is a happy heart"

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

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude"

"Live everyday with an attitude of gratitude"

"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"

"Choose to be grateful"

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

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

"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"

"Don’t compare, just create"

"Be anything but predictable"

"Grow through what you go through"

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