{"quotes":[{"text":"I write to prove that we lived. I write both to remember and to let go. I write because I can't stop, not until this horrible story of ours is over and we're safe at home.","author":"Courtney M. Privett","tags":["journal","memory","writing"],"id":4151,"author_id":"Courtney+M.+Privett"},{"text":"The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginiaknocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.No one asked why he was so solemn today.It was warm. It was relatively quiet.To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.No one was ever here long enough to know us.And we liked it that way.","author":"Taylor Rhodes","tags":["adult-nonfiction","diary","freedom","journal","love","lust","memoir","nonfiction","running-away","self-discovery","self-exploration","sixteenth-notes","taylor-rhodes","young-adult","youth-nonfiction"],"id":6206,"author_id":"Taylor+Rhodes"},{"text":"The power of writing is phenomenal.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["bibilical","education","educational-philosophy","encouragment","imagination","inspiration","journal","keep-a-note","learn","learning-process","lifelong-learner","motivation","note-keeping","notebook","read","record-keeping","self-love","self-motivation","self-seeking","self-study","spiritual","think","wise-word","write","writer","writing"],"id":17106,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I felt I had a calling in my life to be in full-time ministry, and although I was very successful in the insurance business, earning a very large six-figure income, I gave notice to my company and sold out in January 2007 to go into the ministry full-time.","author":"Michael Richard Stosic","tags":["calling","god","journal"],"id":18554,"author_id":"Michael+Richard+Stosic"},{"text":"We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.","author":"Rachele Baker","tags":["asbestos","cancer","courage","diary","hope","inspirational","journal","memoirs","mesothelioma","real-life-story","vermont","women"],"id":21112,"author_id":"Rachele+Baker"},{"text":"We must bringour own lightto thedarkness.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["darkness","journal","light","literature","poetry"],"id":29738,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["alphabet","book","epic","fiction","inspiration","inspirational","journal","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","life","live","lives","love-of-reading","love-of-writing","novel","novels","quote","on-reading","on-writing","read","reader","reading","scary","stories","story","storytelling","transformation","wonderful","words","write","writer","writing"],"id":30621,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.","author":"Christina Baldwin","tags":["baldwin","christina","journal","journaling","writing"],"id":37481,"author_id":"Christina+Baldwin"},{"text":"Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.","author":"Carolyn V. Hamilton","tags":["art","celebration","inspirational","inspirational","journal","journaling","life","life-and-living"],"id":50756,"author_id":"Carolyn+V.+Hamilton"},{"text":"She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["journal","life","past","present","problematic","regret"],"id":62098,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}