In 2003, early on in my fourteen-month journey across Asia and while sitting atop the Great Wall of China, I wrote in my notebook, "Many ways exist to measure a journey—miles, months, passport stamps.  But now another measure has come to mind: walls traversed." In the year that followed I wrote a lot about traversing walls, though not the physical kind.

In this article I’d like to invite you to play a game.  Below you’ll find twenty quotes, listed in no particular order).  Read each of them aloud to yourself and measure it on an inspiro-meter: on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the highest level of inspiration), how inspiring is this quote for you?  Once you measured them all, post a comment below with a quote that’s closest to ten.

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
Flora Whittemore