31 Drawings of March, week 3

Day 15

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

Drawn 3/15/2011


Day 16

“When calamity has been suffered, remember first how much has escaped.”

Drawn 3/16/2011


Day 17

“Few women admit their age, few men act theirs.”

Drawn 3/17/2013


Day 18

“What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs.”

Drawn 3/18/2011


Day 19

“If you are naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don’t like.”

Drawn 3/18/2014


Day 20

“They say nobody’s perfect then they say practice makes perfect. I wish they would make up their mind.”

Drawn 3/20/2012


Day 21

“The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it it brings others.”

Drawing 3/21/2012


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31 Drawings of March, week 2

Day 8

“People who change the world have declared independence from other people’s expectations.”

Drawn 3/8/2016


Day 9

“Once you label me, you negate me.”

Drawn 3/9/2015


Day 10

“Definitions belong to the definer, not the defined.”

Drawn 3/11/2014


Day 11

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

Drawn 3/11/2013


Day 12

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

Drawn 3/12/2001


Day 13

“Simplicity is less thoughts, not less thinking.”

Drawn 3/13/2014


Day 14

“Calamity is the great leveler.”

The napkin drawing is an interpretation of Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ from 36 views of Mt. Fuji – woodblock print, 1831

Drawn 3/14/2011

31 Drawings of March

Day 1

“No human chooses evil because it is evil, they just mistake it for happiness.”

Drawn 3/1/2017


Day 2

“Only a fool tests the waters with both feet.”

Drawn 3/2/2011


Day 3

“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”

Drawn 3/3/2017


Day 4

“We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.”

Drawn 3/4/2011


Day 5

“Flatterers look like friends as wolves look like dogs.”

Drawn 3/5/2013


Day 6

“there is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”

Drawn 3/5/2013


Day 7

“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, then give up thinking what is charming.”

Drawn 3/4/2013


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28 Drawings of February

Day 22

“A discovery is an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

Drawn 2/13/2017


Day 23

“Even if our choices aren’t free, we aren’t free to not choose.”

Drawn 2/25/2010


Day 24

“Three letter words that Ignite Creativity: I can’t even draw a stick figure….YET.”

drawn 2/23/2016


Day 25

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

drawn 2/15/2017


Day 26

“One reason a dog can be such comfort when you’re feeling blue is that they don’t try to find out why.”

Drawn 2/22/2011


Day 27

“The phrase ‘Working Mother’ is redundant.”

Drawn on a napkin 2/19/2014


Day 28

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

Drawn 2/18/2014


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28 Drawings of February, week 3

Day 15

“Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your bra at night.”

Drawn 2/10/2014


Day 16

“If you are happy you are fulfilling the purpose of existence.”

Drawn 2/11/2015


Day 17

“Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule.”

Drawn 2/25/2013


Day 18

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”

Drawn 2/28/2013


Day 19

“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”

Drawn 2/16/2009


Day 20

“Humility doesn’t mean you think less of yourself; it means you think of yourself less.”

Drawn 2/29/2012


Day 21

“Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.”

Drawn 2/27/2012


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28 Drawings of February, Week 2

Day 8

“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.”

Drawn 2/4/2016


Day 9


“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.”

Drawn 2/4/2011


Day 10

“Respect is love in plain clothes.”

Drawn 2/5/2010


Day 11

“A negative mind will never lead to a positive life.”

Drawn 2/8/2016


Day 12

“The surest way to corrupt a young person is to teach them to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.” Nietzsche

If I taught my children one thing, I hope it is this.

Drawn 2/3/2003


Day 13

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”

Drawn 2/2/2012


Day 14

“Love is being stupid together.”

Happy Valentines Day!


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28 Drawings of February, Week 1

I am continuing to post on social media a napkin drawing every day. Here on my site I am posting them weekly. This month i’ve decided to include the commentary I wrote with the napkin on the date originally posted.

Day 1

“Spring, summer, fall fill us with hope; Winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

Drawn 2/1/2011


Day 2

“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”

Drawn 2/2/2010


Day 3

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can’t attain it in anything.”

Drawn on 2/3/2009


Day 4

“I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.”

Confucius

Drawn 2/4/2009


Day 5

“Effort and Courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

Drawn 2/5/2015


Day 6

“here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete: If you are alive, it isn’t.”

Drawn on 2/2/2015


Day 7

“Those who want to imitate anything produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali

Drawn 2/7/2009


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31 Drawings of January, week 5

Day 25

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” – Horace Mann

Drawn 1/10/2001


Day 26

“There is no greater joy for a fool than to find a greater fool.”

Drawn 1/15/2013


Day 27

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Drawn 1/17/2013


Day 28

“A fool flatters herself, a wise woman flatters the fool.”

Drawn 1/16/2013


Day 29

“The universe is uncanny at serving up what we need most in the guise of what we fear most.”

Drawn on 1/8/2014


Day 30

“Life is a quarry out of which we are to mold, chisel and complete a character.”

Drawn on 1/29/2013


Day 31

“She jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

Drawn on 1/24/2013


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31 Drawings of January, week 4

Day 18

“If you can dream it, you can launch it.”

Drawn on a napkin 1/23/2014


Day 19

“We may have all come on different ships but we are all in the same boat now.” – MLK, Jr.

Drawn on a napkin, 1/19/2015


Day 20

“Choose discomfort over regret.”

Drawn 1/27/2011


Day 21

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”

Drawn 1/3/2018


Day 22

“Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.”

Drawn 1/4/2011


Day 23

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

Drawn 1/3/2011


Day 24

“If triangles had a god she would have 3 sides.”

Drawn on 1/21/2014


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31 Drawings of January, Week 3

Day 11

“If you don’t know history then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”

Drawn 1/30/2014


Day 12

“Loving your body only when it’s in perfect shape is like loving your kids only when they’re well-behaved.”

Drawn 1/28/2016


Day 13

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you in hot water.”

drawn 1/31/2012


Day 14

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

Drawn 1/31/2010


Day 15

“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow saying, ‘his color is not mine’ or ‘his beliefs are strange’, in that moment he betrays America.” – LBJ

Drawn 1/21/2013


Day 16

“The Napkin’s Guide to Happy Living: Forego judgment for enjoyment”

Drawn 1/22/2014


Day 17

“The Napkin’s Guide to Happy Living: Expression Defeats Depression”

Drawn 1/29/2014


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