Quotes from Alexandra Johnson

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.

Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

To keep a journal is to learn how to play. Deeply. Even when a page is recording hard, impossible things, if judgment is suspended, there's always a surprise or shift. Connections made over time suddenly link, opening and transforming.

The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process.

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

Thomas Mann that "a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Ten million blank journals are sold annually in stationery stores alone.

It's estimated that sixty-five thousand thoughts float through our mind a day.

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.

The internal Censor (and maddening companions); the necessity for privacy; the security of secrecy. To control these three fears is to unlock the secret of how to slip under the surface of the conscious mind where connections and freedom flourish.