post written by: Marc
25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking Questions
A question that makes you think is worth asking…
At the cusp of a new day, week, month, or year, most of us take a little time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and ahead into the future. We ponder the successes, failures and standout events that are slowly scripting our life’s story. This process of self reflection helps us maintain a conscious awareness of where we’ve been and where we intend to go. It is pertinent to the organization and preservation of our dreams, goals and desires.
If you would like to maximize the benefits of self reflection, our new sister site, Thought Questions, is for you. A new illustrated thought question is posted daily. We recommend that you read and reread these questions regularly when you have some quiet time to think. After all, reflection is the key to progression.
Remember, these questions have no right or wrong answers. Because asking the right questions is the answer.
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161 Comments
March 29th, 2010 at 1:07 am
Beautiful
Loved the wonderful presentation of these thought-provoking questions. The pictures added so much depth to each one of them.
Thank you for sharing them
Cheers!!
March 29th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Wow excellent.
The first one really made me think. If I didn’t know my age, what would I think I am. Very interesting. Also, time or money. Always time.
March 29th, 2010 at 4:18 am
Lovely images and thoughts to go with them..Each is worth thinking about..Thanks!
March 29th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Hey Marc!
Very creative and I love the picture! Thank you
Life is so fast-paced and sometimes we just get stuck in our routines and lose track of all the beautiful things life has to offer. I feel that what matters most are our friends, family and making sure we really enjoy our time on earth.
Have a great week
Diggy
March 29th, 2010 at 7:38 am
I love this! I wish everyone that I love & care about could read this! I’m sharing this with as many people as I can today. Thank you so much.
March 29th, 2010 at 8:16 am
Loved these questions and the beautiful pictures accompanying them. I have linked this post in my latest post on happiness.
Thank you for posting these.
Cheers
Preeti
March 29th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Very inspiring, as always.
March 29th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Great questions and great site you have there! I tried to answer all! Good way to wake up . Thanks.
March 29th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Marc and Angel,
Thanks so much for all of your great postings. I have been promoting and distributing your content to many people around the world because I know that it will have a great impact on my friends, family, clients, peers….
Thanks for all that you do!
Love,
Kev
March 29th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Indeed the pictorial depiction of all these thought-provoking questions is quite beautiful. I find number 20 to be a seed for thinking from a perspective people are not usually aware of (”if you had a friend who spoke to you in the same that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?”), but that more often than never happens…why? maybe we like to think we’re unique especially when we’re on the receiving side of things. I welcome each and everyone of you to challenge my words, because I’d really like your opinions on that.
March 29th, 2010 at 11:44 am
You guys rock! You so inspire me.
March 29th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Great site! I replied to quite a few comments.
They are quite thought provoking.
March 29th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Thanks for all the positive feedback, everyone. Feel free to email us your own questions for inclusion on the new site. We’ll find photos to match your questions:
questions [at] thoughtquestions [dot] com
Have a great week!
March 29th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
WoW!
I now have 25 things to think about.
Great piece.
I need to have a look at my goal sheet after this.
Damien
March 29th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
What would you do differently if you knew no one would judge you?
What an amazing question.
I work on acting in spite of judgment all the time but if I’m totally honest, I think I still hold back in some areas due to fear of judgment.
I think you just have to make a point of working on getting over the fact that people like to judge and just go ahead and take action anyways!
March 29th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Awe-some!
March 29th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Hi Marc,
These are all great questions to ask ourselves!
I think my favorite one is probably #18:
“If you could do it all over again, would you change anything?”
This reminds me that decades from now I don’t want to look back with regret. And I have found that we are most likely to regret what we don’t do.
Therefore, I want to live my life by going for it. Things may work out sometimes and may not work out at other times, but I will have no regrets. And that’s a good place to be.
March 29th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
If not now, then when?
Love it!
March 29th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
These are definitely thought-provoking, and some will take some time to figure out in depth, but I aim to answer them all. Thank you for sharing
March 29th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
awesome. all these questions have been asked by the humanity 4 centuries. but still the precise answers are missing. they are picked up a creative mind ,beautifully packaged and garnished with appropriate graphics.
March 29th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Hi! Good day.
This is awesome. Thank you.
March 29th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
The difference between living and existence is nothing at all. If you are fully aware of your existence, then you are living your life to the fullest
March 30th, 2010 at 4:18 am
Love them! I Retweeted!
March 30th, 2010 at 4:21 am
Just brilliant, found you via a retweet. Great questions!
March 30th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Cheers! Great post!
March 30th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
What would happen if I took the time to answer each question today? I’ll let you know:)
March 30th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Just what I needed to read….. going through a divorce and this put things in perspective.
Thank you!!!
April 1st, 2010 at 7:41 am
Awesome, i really like these images. Thanks for sharing…….
April 1st, 2010 at 10:58 am
Loving the pictures and the questions Marc. Best wishes for the success of the new site!
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:12 am
Great images and questions.! I am curious to know what everyone’s answers would be?
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:23 pm
What a wonderful post! These are all questions that we should ask ourselves every day upon waking up.
#9 is a big one for me and reading it just now has me thinking about whether or not I am in fact doing what I know is right these days…
April 4th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
These are really incredible. #4, 6, and 20 especially speak to me - I’m going to hang them in my office as a constant reminder. Thanks for being brilliant!
April 5th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
awesome post, keep up the great work!
April 7th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
These are great questions Marc! Love them!
Some of them are hard to answer because there are too many possibilities to consider, and some are hard because I really just don’t have a good answer.
Thanks for making me think!
-Saint
April 8th, 2010 at 3:16 am
Beautifully illustrated questions. They may be used as thought for the day in working places. Will trigger thinking and keep ones mind occupied. Keep it up
April 8th, 2010 at 7:13 am
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this post, very thought provoking! They all sent me off into a spin but today no.15 particularly stands out for me.
Keep up the great work!
Lola
April 15th, 2010 at 4:32 am
that’s a really nice post, its the first time that i see that style in a post
April 15th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Some of these are truly beautiful and bought a proverbial tear to my eye. Keep it up!
April 24th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
You have given me several images for my Vision Board.
Thank you!
April 27th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Excellent questions lead to soul searching answers. =)
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:29 pm
I just found this post today…thank you for sharing this…these images are just as beautiful as the words.
July 15th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Love these, especially #1 and #20. Really makes you ponder about your life.
One I am thinking about now too is:
If you could change anything in your life right now, would you actually follow through with it?
Thanks for such inspirational messages.
July 26th, 2010 at 12:45 am
good stuff for ppl like myself doing a recovery program
July 26th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Thank you… I am going to hug my kids right now. They mean the world to me…do they know that? Hopefully. But I can never tell them enough!
Thank you!
July 31st, 2010 at 12:40 pm
So well said.
Thought provoking.
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Beautiful!
By the question ‘Time or Money’ i thought: Time AND Money, gggg…
I set a link to the beautiful, wise blog of Thought Questions! Thank you for this great posting!
August 7th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
How old would I be if I didn’t know? 25. How old am I ? 67. It’s great to be alive.
August 9th, 2010 at 6:44 am
Nice collection and certainly questions to ponder. Very nice work.
August 10th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
wish there was a way to share all this information on facebook great great great stuff
August 13th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Love these! Really uplifting:)
August 17th, 2010 at 1:49 am
Lovely and inspiring! Thanks
August 20th, 2010 at 1:39 am
from my valentine by (i forgot that surgeon’s character name) of everwood tv series
“where do they go, all the things we think and feel, but don’t say?”
August 20th, 2010 at 5:34 am
Thank you, it serves as a reminder to think deeply about anything
August 26th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Why don´t you create an account in twitter, so we could follow you ? Thanks.
August 27th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Awesome and inspiring!
Thank you.
August 27th, 2010 at 10:29 am
What a great though provoking site, congratulations for inspiring an inquisitve mind to even greater heights!
August 31st, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Thought provoking is right! Very good list, you got me thinking…
Live a life of priorities? Or, obligations?
Blessings,
Ron
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:43 am
Something for me to ponder about.
September 5th, 2010 at 7:45 am
Good work man!
September 6th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Thank you! I hate to love these…they are VERY difficult to absorb. They are both depressing and enlightening at the same time. Maybe Summarizing the answer…”think, be and do what is right…now”
September 6th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
i love all these paintings!but all of the questions are very hard!
September 6th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
this is my favorite web page ever!!!!!!
September 6th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
I’m not entirely sure what I’m supposed to think
September 11th, 2010 at 12:34 am
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
September 11th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
how old would i be? 13. how old am i? 8.
hahaha
September 13th, 2010 at 8:40 am
These images are so beautiful and interesting. They all together with the questions made me think about my life. Super colection of question about life and existence, love and money. Thank you so much for sharing.
September 15th, 2010 at 1:05 am
Awesome, fantastic, i think i’ll need a day or two before i finish answering all the questions. A set of simple thought-provoking questions.
Thanks very much.
September 15th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
This really made me think about the current state of my life and might just be the impetus for some major changes I’ve been needing to make.
September 19th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
love it!
September 21st, 2010 at 9:57 am
#25 is great
September 27th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Great site, although is it bad that my answer to question 20 would be ‘not very long, she grumbles too much’. Oops!
October 2nd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
This is the type of questions that all need to ask. I love it!!!!!
October 3rd, 2010 at 1:45 am
beautiful and powerful. #20 is my new mantra.
thanks for sharing!
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Beautiful….
October 11th, 2010 at 11:14 am
Wow, really inspiring!
For the first time I’ve found some “internet written” questions that I thought thery were interesting. Really. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? nice. Or.. do we question ourselves for instinct or did we just learn to do that? Never know.
Thanks!
October 11th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Love this page
Quantum science says that our thoughts create our reality - that we live in a holographic multiverse of infinite possibillities
Best wishes!
October 12th, 2010 at 3:33 am
I absolutely and completely love this blog post. So inspiring and, of course, thought-provoking.
October 14th, 2010 at 7:57 am
i really like it.. some questions to ponder every night
October 21st, 2010 at 2:58 am
I like the idea how this article is presented. It´s beautiful and thought-provoking at the same time.
We all should ask questions like them once in a while to get a better understanding of ourselves.
October 23rd, 2010 at 5:00 pm
I like how these sentiments are illustrated. My favourite one is the two questions:
“Who do you love? What are you doing about it?”
That’s worth asking daily to keep on track.
October 24th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
#20 relates to me so much…
October 26th, 2010 at 2:50 am
Wow… really thought provoking…
October 26th, 2010 at 3:09 am
Gr8 website and questions and images.
October 26th, 2010 at 3:19 am
this is beautiful,infact i have booked marked the page to review it more and more in ma free time
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 pm
On behalf of the women of Anonymous8, thank you for this!
Sincerely yours,
Sarah Baron
Anonymous8
November 4th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Thanks so much for the great questions. Truly inspirational. I’m always looking for writing assignments for my students and these are great.
November 8th, 2010 at 2:49 am
No. 5: Would I do something differently if I knew nobody would judge me? Yes.
December 5th, 2010 at 12:09 am
nice questions. i would like to share it with friends. thanks.
December 5th, 2010 at 10:41 am
awesome thoughts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 6th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
This is beautiful, and very motivational. Makes me think to myself.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:07 am
This was truly inspirational. Great work!
December 9th, 2010 at 5:29 am
I actually cried when I read these, what wonderful, motivating questions. Thank you SO much!
December 18th, 2010 at 5:42 am
My favorite camp counselor once said to me that life’s not about finding the right answers, but asking the best questions.
December 21st, 2010 at 10:29 am
Re question 20- If someone could talk to me the same way I talk with myself I imagine I’d feel finally understand and be understood. Not sure what the intent of that question is. Deep communication and a semantically similar map of reality would be wonderful
December 22nd, 2010 at 1:04 pm
These questions put me into deep thought
December 24th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
time or money.
time.
but if we pick time, why do we spend it doing something we hate in order to make money..
January 15th, 2011 at 1:54 pm
hi. its nice & inspiring can i post some of your pics to face book? thanks.
January 19th, 2011 at 12:46 am
Hey Marc!
It seems this month is going to be entirely productivity related. Every post that you are sharing these days makes me feel that where was i thinking when you could do this? As always i find your post very powerful and thought provoking. Questions that were well presented by pictures made it too sticky.
I think this can be used for presenting at the end of one’s session at colleges too.
Thumbs up!
January 22nd, 2011 at 8:25 am
awwwwesome…stunning pics!!! truly thought provoking….. !!
January 23rd, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Super! A lot to think about.
I’d love to have such a sequence of questions and images related to passages which come from the bible.
February 19th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Soo totally awesome! Thanks for making my day!
March 2nd, 2011 at 9:22 pm
This is so inspiring. I’m going to use some of these questions to teach my students conditional sentences in my Spanish class. It’s going to be fun thanks to you!
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:45 am
Beautiful pictures and provoking questions.
I’ll certainly come back for more.
Cheers,
Barbara
March 29th, 2011 at 6:20 am
Love the quotes, thought provoking and energizing!
March 31st, 2011 at 7:32 pm
When you`re her age, what will matter to you the most?
Family, friends, great memories, and God. As it should be for us today as well…
April 2nd, 2011 at 2:52 pm
This got me thinking so much… Every single one of them did.
April 14th, 2011 at 10:54 am
#20 hit me.
April 19th, 2011 at 2:18 am
Your #9 hits home. I always wonder when everyone will do the right thing. Hopefully, we move closer to that daily.
May 18th, 2011 at 10:43 am
Wow. Those are awesome! May I use them on my blog. I use to do a journal jar question and wanted to get back into doing that and would love to use your pictures
May 24th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
It really inspires. Keep it up!
May 27th, 2011 at 12:32 am
all these are beautiful , i love 20 as well….
– and i just noticed something that defied the general order of the internet here — there has yet to be a single troll comment on this post. Crazy, right? =D
June 28th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
i look at this every day, just to make sure im doing things day to day for the right reasons, and to make everything as fulfilling as possible
July 20th, 2011 at 9:00 am
I love this post, thanks for sharing :o)
July 21st, 2011 at 11:03 am
Here’s a question I ask myself daily…
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
And ALWAYS I choose time over money!
Thanks for the lovely questions!
August 4th, 2011 at 7:11 am
Loved it! Enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing this really inspiring post!
August 4th, 2011 at 9:28 am
LIFE IS BETWEEN HAVES AND HAVE NOTS. WE SHOULD THINK TO ENJOY WHAT DO WE HAVE
August 14th, 2011 at 11:52 am
Wow! This is a beautiful post. Inspiring and thought provoking.
August 15th, 2011 at 12:51 am
..Reading this while in my class’ lab session.
God I swear reading through those questions would’ve made me cry if not for having my mates around.
Wonderful post!
August 22nd, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Wonderful post! These questions are worth reading. Thank you for sharing it!
October 4th, 2011 at 12:55 am
Really inspiring questions!!! thanks for these!!!
October 6th, 2011 at 1:58 am
“Which activities make you lose track of time?”
Reading inspiring, beautiful pieces of writing such as this…
October 31st, 2011 at 12:08 am
Food for thought! How inspirational!
November 1st, 2011 at 8:48 am
I love these questions. Many of them make me think about the beauty of life.
November 17th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Some very thoughtful questions… If I didn’t know, I wouldn’t be of any age, ever!
November 21st, 2011 at 12:14 am
Beautiful!
Definetely some very thought-provoking questions. They go beyond making you flinch on the idea of how a switch in your own perspectives could make your contributions and achievements seem so petty. I feel reassured that life - as complex as it may seem, has so much to offer and the possiblities for you are endless and hopeful.
Live life to express, and be inspirational all the while being inspired for thy self.
November 25th, 2011 at 12:13 am
#3 made me think. But in my mind the question should be reworded. It should say, can you lie without telling a lie? Think about it.
December 2nd, 2011 at 3:38 pm
I love these questions so much! Thanks for making me think… I don’t really get a chance to in my regular day, so hats off to you Marc and Angel!
December 8th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Fantastic, inspiring, and thought provoking! Thanks!
December 15th, 2011 at 8:39 am
Fantastic!!! I’m so glad that i open this site…i will use these questions to guide me on my everyday existence…thank you SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! really your an angel…super like!!! (”,)
December 17th, 2011 at 8:56 am
I am so glad I came across this site. I love this post! You really got me thinking….
January 7th, 2012 at 7:09 am
Excellent dinner table conversation starters now that my kids are older. I’ll definitely keep a few of those in mind.
January 10th, 2012 at 11:46 am
Really thought provoking.
Thanks for sharing such beautiful pics with messages…
Cheers
Theja
January 27th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
I like the questions. What makes me smile though? The picture of the cute girl smiling makes me smile.
March 12th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
thank you so much for the inspiring topics .. on this site… very thought provocking..
March 15th, 2012 at 6:44 am
Wonderful questions!
March 15th, 2012 at 6:48 am
Very thought provoking, simple questions. Thanks.
March 16th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Love these! Powerful and liberating.
March 24th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Bless the old woman in that picture. Excellent pictures and questions. Makes me think.
March 26th, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Nice list. Thank you for these!
March 28th, 2012 at 9:45 am
Cool post. Love the inspirational questions.
April 13th, 2012 at 10:35 am
Some incredibly good questions. I’ll definitely be reflecting on these for some time. Thank you.
May 30th, 2012 at 7:14 am
Just couldnt stop going through it over and over again! Wonderful Questions!
July 6th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Brilliant! As a Life Coach I know that powerful questions are the key to growth and self-discovery! Thank-you for sharing!
Ang
August 7th, 2012 at 9:39 am
SO thought provoking - we should ask ourselves these kinds of questions on a daily basis!
August 22nd, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Wonderful questions! Makes Me Think!
August 29th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
always good stuff… this is one of my favorites. Thank you~!
August 31st, 2012 at 7:11 am
NICE!!
September 5th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
good questions!! makes me think.
September 13th, 2012 at 5:15 am
Really thought provoking questions… thank you.
September 14th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
So many thought provoking questions!
September 30th, 2012 at 11:17 am
Just ran across this post and I think it’s wonderful! Great job.
#19 and #9 really makes me think. Again, fantastic.
October 4th, 2012 at 11:41 am
Great questions! #3, #13, and #20… POWERFUL! Thanks for posing such thought provoking inquiries and having us to think on this wonderful thing we call life.
October 4th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Beautiful, and truly touching. I am actually crying. Thank you for this post.
December 16th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Awesome! Great questions indeed!
December 20th, 2012 at 5:38 am
Really good questions - attracts the mind beautifully and makes you think.
January 19th, 2013 at 11:08 pm
Thoughtful questions indeed. Thanks for sharing.
February 9th, 2013 at 7:21 am
Thank you!!!
February 14th, 2013 at 3:17 am
You know what I like the best about this site - It is ovewhelming with positive thoughts and energy.
Everyone who posts a comment and every article is so uplifting and thought provoking!
February 17th, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Great questions. One of them really struck home for me. It is definitely a question I will be mulling over for a while. Thanks for that.
March 11th, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Thanks for the thought provoking text and images. Bottom line is - enjoy your life now because you’ll be a long time dead!
April 10th, 2013 at 11:57 pm
Wow…!
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