As Emerson suggests, collect words and sentences that inspire you to speak your truth.
My college roommate and I used to collect quotes for one another. We’d write inspirational words down on Post-its and keep files where we regularly stored our favorite messages that we’d stumbled across. We both agreed: words are powerful.
When someone expresses an observation that we identify with, a sense of validation and synchronicity arises within us. We’re reminded that we’re not alone, that someone, somewhere else in the world, has discovered the same truth that we’re living or perhaps arrived at a conclusion we needed to hear ourselves.
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 came across the quote above from a fellow quote-collector, journaler, and generally uplifting blogger, Gala Darling. In her “30 Days of Radical Self-Love Letters,” she talks about starting a radical self-love journal where you can store all of the things that make you happy. Since I came across this quote, I’ve noticed my own journaling has changed quite a bit in turn. It’s filled less with my own internal ramblings, and more with words, images, and conversations that I find uplifting.
In short, it’s turning into my own “bible.”
What words and sentences have been like the blast of a trumpet to you? What bloggers, authors, poets, filmmakers, or artists have shouted your truth and spoken to you like no other? On the flip side, what is your own truth? If one of your readers were making their own inspiration journal, what message would you want to share?
The more we analyze our influences and the words that speak to us, the more we’re able to peek under the hood of our own writing. By exploring the quotes and phrases that feel like your truth, and that pick you up out of a writing rut, you’re able to uncover processes and truths in your own work. As you sit down at your keyboard this week, channel your greatest influences and either write your own blast of a trumpet or share what speaks to you.
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absolutely love this quote! And whole post in general. Feeling inspired to start a collection of quotes for my own 🙂
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I feel the need to create another blog!
I found an Emerson quote on a greeting card many years ago, and decided I needed it more than anyone I’d send it to: “It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
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I adore quotes. They inspire me daily.
I actually wrote this post because of a Faulkner quote! Check it out if you have time. I love feedback!
“Don’t Be a Writer”
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So true and nice to know that there ARE other people in the World who find it important to create your own bible. Thank you! -K
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Nice one !!I have been collecting quotes in different languages !! Happy to know that I am not the only one.
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Love this! I collect quotes that I love for inspiration and also things that people say to me. Sometimes they become a blog post! 🙂
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Love it, i have many quotes all over my house and office
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love this!! I have always enjoyed keeping a journal with quotes that really speak to me.
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I have to find my truth before I can express it. Right now my mind is a thousand thoughts;
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Do I dare eat a peach?
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Great idea
Collecting personal quotes
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This entry fits pretty perfectly, as I have an entire section of quotes in my blog. The latest topic, that isn’t up yet, is “quotes that helped me through a divorce” If anyone wants to get a handle on who I am, all they have to do is read the list of my favorite quotes. 🙂
http://mybleedingink.com/category/quotes-quotes-and-more-quotes/
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I personally thought that your post was so inspiring
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great 🙂
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Richard Bach in “The Reluctant Messiah”: Argue for your limitations and sure enough they’re yours.
Paraphrase of sociologist Margaret Mead: Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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My two favourites are:
1. For creativity and generally getting on with life – “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
Frank Tibolt
2. And after having lived through a series of natural disasters in New Zealand, this quote helped me manage anxiety around the ‘might have been’ and ‘what could be’ thinking – “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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A wonderful legacy to pass on as you have. I have a scrapbook of quotes…and started collecting sayings when I was a teen.
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…like the blast of a trumpet. Beautiful. Thanks
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Quotes are scattered all over my space, stuffed in computer files, written out in numberless journals, memorized for ever. I take song lyrics as quotes to, so this also get packed into my mind.
Been researching quotes for a challenge and just by culling for three authors, I have a pile. And I only need three.
Wonderful article — quite quotable.
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Love it! It’s so remarkable that a word, proverb, famous quote etc. can create such a spark within us, especially when it takes you back in time to a specific moment in your life. How coincidental! my last post was about a
quote, I only posted it yesterday. I’m glad I found you.
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Wow I posted today!
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Writer is a treasurer and essentials related to this are marvelously explained in the post. 🙂 I endlessly admire other art forms, but we can best express and explain ourselves through words.
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Great! http://www.luckysketch.com
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Good!
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Inspirational
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Congratulations!
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For someone like me who used to have problems to express myself in writing and this idea is awesome! I love quotes, read beautiful words and powerful proverbs! Each day, my soul always needs to be nourish with positivism! Thank you so much for sharing!
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Thank you for sharing! Only a week old onto the blog scene. Took long enough. I call my story line-up my personal lexicon of attaching experience to punch lines, helpful experiences etc. Be well, William
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I agree to what you say about recollecting ones influences and sharing what one has on mind.
Sometimes great thoughts get lost if not written/spoken right, influencing them always helps.
Loved your Idea, Thank You.
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