“to keep a fire burning have the logs close enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart for air to fan the flames.”
Draw 4/10/2012
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
Drawn 4/11/2014
“Wounds teach better lessons than lectures.”
Drawn 4/16/2014
“In life, one is always alone. The important thing is with whom.”
Drawn 4/25/2014
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“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
And I would add – forgiveness will start to happen when you take forgiving action, not just think about it.
Drawn 4/15/2009
“Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.”
Drawn 4/22/2011
“Training boys is wiser than limiting girls.”
Drawn 4/23/2013
“What counts in a happy marriage isn’t how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
Drawn 4/13/2012
“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”
drawn 4/12/2012
Drawn 4/13/2012
“By all means marry; if you get a good spouse you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
Drawn 4/12/2012
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
Drawn 4/11/2012
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“Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.”
drawn 4/9/2010
“to educate a man in mind but not morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Drawn 4/1/2004
“the illusion that exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.”
Drawn 4/27/2015
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit can still rejoice over what it has left.”
Drawn 4/22/2009
“I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends call it.”
Drawn 4/1/2011
“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
Drawn 4/23/2009
“You will know forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
Drawn 4/15/2009
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“I think it’s about time we vote for people with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.”
Drawn 4/16/2012
“Do not mistake temptation for opportunity.”
This has been me too many times in my life. I rationalized it as an opportunity when it was just me being drawn to what I desired. Of course, both things can be true at the same time but even if it is an opportunity you might miss it if you are focused on the short term fulfillment of your desire. The long game is the hardest game to play.
Drawn 4/14/2016
“If you want to kill a good idea, get a committee working on it.
Drawn 4/28/2016
“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Drawn 4/12/2011
“Don’t let imaginary dangers inflict real wounds.”
Drawn 4/14/2015
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
Drawn 4/27/2009
“You can be misunderstood once. After that, you are just communicating poorly.”
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“Perfectionish doesn’t believe in improvement.”
Drawn 3/22/2012
“The best way out is always through.”
Drawn 3/22/2013
“Imagine walking a mile in someone else’s headlines.”
Drawn 3/24/2015
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
Drawn 3/25/2009
“Respect my existence or expect my resistance.”
Drawn 3/24/2021
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
Drawn 3/27/2014
“We shape clay into a pot but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”
Drawn on 3/9/2011
“yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
Drawn on 3/24/2016
“He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” – MLK, Jr.
drawn 3/6/2001
“Research is what we are doing when we don’t know what we are doing.”
Drawn 3/31/2014
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