Thoughts That Make You Think

I always enjoy reading anything that makes me ponder. Granted, nearly everything has that effect on me. These quotes, however, may also have that effect on you. Please feel free to comment with any quotations that you feel might add to this blog. If I agree, I might just make an edit! 

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. -Terri Guillemets

And upside down in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. -Bill Knott

We are asleep with compasses in our hands. -W.S. Merwin

We are never prepared for what we expect. -James A. Michener

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. -Antonio Porchia

Take the so-called standard of living.  What do most people mean by "living"?  They don't mean living.  They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. -E.E. Cummings

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot

Inspire Me

Quotes to inspire and awaken your soul...

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart, this you will build your life by, and this you will become." - James Allen

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." - Gandhi

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny." - David O. McKay

"He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he himself must pass." - George Herbert

"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.' - Robert Anthony