"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt


Sunday, March 13, 2011

A Long Letter

About three weeks behind on my journal. Yep. And now I'm trying to catch up. I have SO much to say about everything! I have been writing a paragraph or so every day but that's so not enough. I like details! And when I get behind, it's so much harder to write cuz I don't even know where to start!

I have written 64 pages since January 3rd. Typed pages. 11 point font. It's exciting to me how much I've written, how much of the last two and a half months I have recorded. And I love going back and reading parts. Most of it I still really remember. But it's the details and the way I felt about it then that makes it interesting.

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"I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it..... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later..."
-Cameron Diaz

"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."
-Jean Cocteau

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
-Oscar Wilde

"I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important."
-Judy Collins

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