Day 1

“Change how you SEE and SEE how you change”
Zen proverb (a variation was made popular by Wayne Dyer – “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” )
Drawn 9/12/2025
Day 2

“Things average out: if you think too much of yourself, others won’t.” – Folk aphorism
I looked the quote up just now to get the right source and this is what they told me. hahaha, I’m famous!

Day 3

“The only benefit you get from judging others is a brief distraction from your own life.”
Drawn today, 9/3/2026
Anonymous
Day 4

“Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going to far.”
quote by French artist, poet, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau
Day 5

In DFW on the way to North Carolina
She couldn’t get the water bottle open so I did it for her then I drew her.
Drawn 9/12/2011
Day 6

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home. But unlike charity, it should end there.”
Drawn 9/19/2012
Day 7

“What does labor want?
More schools, less jails;
More books, less guns;
More learning, less vice;
More Justice, less revenge;
In fact, more opportunities to cultivate our better nature.”
Samuel Gompers, President of the AFL, 1893
© 2026 Marty Coleman | napkindad.com
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