"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self." ~ Charles Horton Cooley
My therapist is my journal, which I write in spiral notebooks obtainable for under a dollar in any city in the country. That's why I call my journal "the 79 cent therapist." ~ Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self, 1990
The word “journal” has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day. ~ Sheila Bender, A Year in the Life, Journaling
I want to live my life, not record it. ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I’ve missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place. ~ May Sarton, At 82: A Journal
Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you.~ Mae West