“Hatred does not cease by more hatred but only by love.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” – Voltaire
“A career is made in public, talent in private.”
“If hate has a shape it is of a boomerang.”
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you are looking for, go live with a car battery.”
Drawn 6/30/2011
“Consequence is no coincidence.”
Drawn 6/21/2016
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“If you feel indispensable, put your finger in a glass of water, withdraw it, and note the hole you have left.”
Drawn 5/8/2012
“It may take forever to win men’s minds by persuasion, but that’s quicker than you can do it by force.”
Drawn 5/18/2012
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
Drawn on Memorial Day, 5/30/2011
“Just because you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.”
Drawn 5/24/2013
‘Writing Lesson Number 1: Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.”
Drawn 5/24/2011
“There is nothing like a persuasive speedh to fuddle the mental apparatus, upset the convictions, and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the delusions of oratory.”
Drawn 5/17/2012
“Taking Joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.”
Drawn 5/24/2013
“Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.”
Drawn 5/13/2014
“If you have a radical idea, be conservative in how you carry it out.”
Drawn 5/16/2014
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“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.”
Drawn 5/12/2016
“If the world were perfect it wouldn’t be.”
Drawn 5/10/2016
“If you would persuade others, seem open to persuasion yourself.”
Drawn 5/15/2012
“Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.”
Drawn 5/14/2012
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“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.”
Drawn 5/6/2016
“Mothers are the gardeners of the human race.”
Drawn Mother’s Day 2016
“It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it.”
“It is hard to tell what brings happiness: poverty and wealth have both failed.” (I vote for art)
Drawn 5/18/2011
“At twenty we worry about what others think of us;
At forty we don’t care what others think of us;
At sixty we realize they haven’t been thinking about us at all.”
Drawn 5/6/2011
“You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.”
Drawn 5/3/2017
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Drawn 5/9/2017
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The first several days of this week were taken up with reintroducing myself to a new audience, explaining how I became the Napkin Dad. You can read that story at ‘Napkin Beginnings’ at the top menu.
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing but the making of something after finding it.”
Drawn 5/17/2016
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists primarily of dealings with men.”
Drawn 5/23/2016
“The bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies – probably because they are generally the same people!”
Drawn 5/19/2011
“Mothers are the gardeners of the human race.”
“If the world were perfect it wouldn’t be.”
“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.”
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
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“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
“Every person must do two things alone. They must do their own believing and their own dying.”
Drawn 4/29/2014
“If you scatter thorns don’t go barefoot.”
Drawn 4/22/2013
“The name we give to something shapes our attitude towards it.”
Drawn 4/11/2019
“One plays the piano, gets discord. Another plays, gets harmony. The piano is not at fault. The same is true of life.”
Drawn 4/28/2010
“The foolish reject what they see. The wise reject what they think.”
Drawn 4/21/2017
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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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