What do you yearn to say, but fear to speak aloud? (“You can’t use up words, but they use you up.” – Zadie Smith) What does it mean to truly belong? (“You only are free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place.” – Maya Angelou) Trace the shape of your resilience. Where does it bend but not break? (“What you can imagine is always less than what you can’t.” – Toni Morrison) What parts of you have you yet to discover? (“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.” – Rumi) If your body could tell the story of your life, what would it say? (“The body keeps the score.” – Bessel van der Kolk) What are the unspoken rules of your life? What happens if you break them? (“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” – Immanuel Kant) Imagine your life as a novel: what’s its title? What would the opening sentence be? What’s the shape of your joy? Does it flow like water, spark like fire, or root like a tree? (“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” – Walt Whitman) Describe a moment when you felt infinite. (*“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower) What truths are hiding in plain sight in your life? (“Tell the truth but tell it slant.” – Emily Dickinson) What would you write if you didn’t care who would read it? (“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel) What is your heart’s truest desire? (“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” – Blaise Pascal) What do you carry that is no longer yours to bear? (“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell) What parts of your life feel borrowed? Which feel earned? (“What’s yours will find you.” – Rumi) Who are you when no one else is watching? (“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde) Where have you felt the presence of the sublime? (“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir) How do you define love? How has it shaped your world? (“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky) Write a letter to your past self. What advice would you give them? What is a dream you refuse to give up on? (“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes) Who have you become, despite everything? (“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde) What would it mean to truly see yourself? (“The greatest thing is to see yourself as you are.” – Nikos Kazantzakis) What is the shape of your loneliness? (“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou) What silence do you carry within you? What would it say if it could speak? (“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anaïs Nin) What’s a truth you once denied but now hold close? (“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” – David Foster Wallace) Whose voice echoes most in your own? (James Baldwin) Write about a moment that felt like forever. (“Forever is composed of nows.” – Emily Dickinson) Who would you be if you were unafraid? (Toni Morrison) What is something you’ve forgotten but wish you could remember? What is the cost of the life you dream of? (Audre Lorde) Ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? (Rainer Maria Rilke) Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? (“What does ‘wild’ mean to you right now?” – Mary Oliver) What’s the one thing you’ve been holding back? (Natalie Goldberg) Who do you want to be? What stories do you want to tell? (Margaret Atwood) What does courage feel like to you? (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) Invent a word for a feeling you’ve never been able to name. Describe the smell of a forgotten memory. What color is regret? What does it taste like? Where does your soul feel most at home? (bell hooks) What is a space between two people called? (Anne Carson) How would your life change if you trusted yourself more? (Adrienne Rich) What’s a dream you’ve outgrown? How does it feel to let it go? Write about a place that only exists in your memory. What do you long for but cannot name? (“I am longing for something, and I do not know what.” – Clarice Lispector) If your life had a season, what would it be and why? What moments of joy felt like they could last forever? What is the bravest thing you’ve ever done? What is the bravest thing you’ve yet to do? What do you wish you could unlearn? How would you describe the weight of memory? (Rebecca Solnit) What would you tell your younger self about the path ahead? (Alice Walker) What story are you afraid to write? (Rainer Maria Rilke) If you could see your life from the outside, what would you notice first? (Mary Oliver) Where do you feel most alive? What does it feel like in your body? What’s the one thing you’ve been too afraid to say aloud? Who are the ghosts in your story? What do they want from you? Write about the moment you realized you had grown. What does a pause in your life look like? How do you fill it? What does forgiveness feel like? What color is it? Write a love letter to the version of yourself that got you through your hardest moments. What is the geography of your grief? What would you create if you knew you couldn’t fail? Where do your dreams go when you wake up? What is the sound of hope? If you could only keep one memory, which would it be? What does silence mean to you? What does it hold? What is something you are still learning to accept? Invent a ritual for letting go of something that no longer serves you. Write about the place you dream of visiting but have never been. What is a word you overuse, and what does it reveal about you? If your life were a map, where would the X marking treasure be? What does freedom look like in your life? What’s the question you’re most afraid to ask yourself? Who were you before the world told you who to be? What would you write if no one could see it?