31 Drawings of July, week 4

Day 22

“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”

Drawn 7/26/2016


Day 23

“If I had to live my life again, i’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

Drawn 7/11/2013


Day 24

“Creativity is allowing your self to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

Drawn 7/12/2013


Day 25

“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”

Drawn 7/15/2013


Day 26

“Success in life is founded on making only the right mistakes.”

Drawn on 7/17/2013


Day 27

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road of truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

Drawn 7/18/2013


Day 28

“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about.”

Drawn 7/13/2011


Day 29

“Minds are like Flowers – They only open when the time is right.”

Drawn 7/22/2015


Day 30

“Done is better than perfect.”

Drawn 7/15/2015


Day 31

“A Promise is a cloud, fulfillment is the rain.”

Drawn 7/9/2014


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31 Drawings of July, week 3

Day 15

“Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.”

Drawn 7/19/2010


Day 16

“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.”

Drawn 7/20/2010


Day 17

Jade at Starbucks

Drawn 7/30/2014


Day 18

Jade holding her drawing

Taken 7/30/2014


Day 19

‘Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”

Drawn 7/29/2013


Day 20

“A person finds their identity by identifying.”

Drawn 7/30/2013


Day 21

“Deciding what to remember is how we decide who we are.”

Drawn 7/31/2013


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31 Drawings of July, week 2

Day 8

“If there is anything we wish to change in a child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves.”

Drawn 7/8/2011


Day 9

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”

Drawn 7/7/2011


Day 10

“When you are finished changing, you are finished.”

Drawn 7/6/2011


Day 11

“The only difference between a rut and a grave is the dimensions.”

drawn 7/5/2011


Day 12

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

Drawn 7/11/2015


Day 13

“The Curious Paradox: When I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

Drawn 7/21/2015


Day 14

“Guns don’t kill people, bullets do.”

Drawn 7/20/2012


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31 Drawings of July, week 1

Day 1

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
Drawn 6/4/2009


Day 2

“What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise.”

Drawn 7/2/2015


Day 3

“As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.” – George Washington.

Drawn 7/4/2014


Day 4th of July

“What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.”

Drawn 7/4/2010


Day 5

“Unless you change direction, you will get where you are headed.”

Drawn 7/25/2011


Day 6

“Beauty is a brief gasp between one cliche and another.”

Drawn 7/12/2017


Day 7

“She poured coffee as if she was from Oshkosh but she poured it in Texas.”

Drawn at the Gaylord Hotel in Texas 7/5/2012


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30 Drawings of June, week 5

Day 28

“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.”

Drawn on 6/9/2009


Day 29

“She occasionally stumbled over the truth but hastily picked herself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
Quote by Winston Churchill, commenting on a political opponent who had insulted him earlier.

Drawn on 6/16/2014


“Life is much more unexpected…than I expected.”

Quote by me.

Drawn on 6/13/2004


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