188 Quotes About Diary

Productivity is now sold as a lifestyle. People hustle away and grind for the sake of grinding. New calendars. New dry erase markers. New journals. But when they write in advanced journals, they write of goals and next steps— never of thoughts and secrets. When they write of goals, their goals are to have more goals. So you abandon the empty castle that is productivity and enter the little cottage of your funny heart.

You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to him. The torments and hells of [crazy men], are not for you.

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

Time is the diary of the universe.

If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.

Here I am once again Holding my pen while it’s going all dry With no stories there to write Nor remarkable dates for me to scratch And it scares the hell out of me the way my soul became so numb That all my papers turn into blanks …

I had seen the world as either white or black.It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.

Jake always liked his books and stories. And writing in his diaries. It was a comfort for him. He could work through things that way.”“That’s nice. I’ve noticed he still likes to write. He spends a lot of time writing.”“That’s how he makes sense of the world.

We have found each other in that nostalgia of being abandoned.