Journal to the Self Quotes

“Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” eloquently captures the inherent paradox in living: every choice for contains within it all of the choices not for.”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life

“3.Get to know all the different parts of yourself. Psychologically as well as physically, each of us is made up of many different pieces; we are human jigsaw puzzles.”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life

“each of us holds at our core a deep desire to become “more of who we really are.”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life

“There’s a friend at the end of your pen which you can use to help you solve personal or business problems, get to know all the different parts of yourself, explore your creativity, heal your relationships, develop your intuition”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life

“I previously had in my head but not in my heart—and I will stay with this sadness as best I can.”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life

“As a journal tool, though, Clustering does these and more. It also helps integrate the left and right hemispheres of the brain by drawing from characteristics of each. On the “right brain” side, Clustering generates an easy flow of ideas in random sequence. On the “left brain” side, it provides a structure from which information can be easily organized.”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding bu Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life

“when we love or hate some quality of another person, it is likely that we are loving or hating that same quality in ourselves, even though we may be denying its very existence in our own personality!”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding bu Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life

“The Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller reports that many adults are unable to remember their childhoods. According to Miller, these memories are repressed at a time when it is necessary for the child’s emotional survival to forget. To experience the pain of wounds inflicted by parents on whom the child is totally dependent is, in the child’s undeveloped mind, tantamount to death. And so the child learns not to feel—and eventually, not to remember—these hurts.”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life

“There are two things to avoid with your journal. One is never writing in it; the other is always writing in it. In the first case, you participate in life without observing it. In the second case, you observe life without participating in it.”
― Kathleen Adams, Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding bu Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life