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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