I've been collecting inspiring quotations since my school days, often scribbling them down on scraps of paper and later writing them out neatly into my quote journal. There's something very empowering about the words of others especially when they mirror one's own thoughts. So often I just can't put into words what I am feeling and when I find a quotation that expresses these thoughts clearly, it's very satisfying.
Emerson began writing a journal at about 15 and in it he wrote his thoughts, experiences and quotes from the books that impressed him.
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
__ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found beautiful handmade journals and artist books on the web, all of which would make wonderful quote "bibles".
Miniature Journal by Teo Studio
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
__ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found beautiful handmade journals and artist books on the web, all of which would make wonderful quote "bibles".
Miniature Journal by Teo Studio
If you feel like sharing your favourite quotes I would love to read them.
One of my many favourite quotes is by Nigerian writer, Ben Okri ......
"We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected."
Journal by Bridgette Guerzon Mills. See more at amonobooks here.
