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2013
December ⤴
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Success is dependent on effort.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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If you’re not prepared for failure then you’re not prepared to succeed.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
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The environment is everything that isn’t me.
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Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
November ⤴
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
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A joke is a very serious thing.
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The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
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Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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I’ve never been more normal than I am now.
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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After a storm comes a calm.
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
October ⤴
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
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We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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I think the best judge of character; is how much it changes.
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Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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When all else fails there’s always delusion.
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People never cease to amaze me.
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If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
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I promote my own self-hatred.
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People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.
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I want the world to be better because I was here.
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
September ⤴
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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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An exercise in futility
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
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A man’s kiss is his signature.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Everything is Possible Bottle
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Political Suicide
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
August ⤴
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
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Time does not heal all wounds. Time reveals all wounds for all their gore.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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An apology never accepted, is better than an apology never said.
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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Dash by Kapeli
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OS X Ivericks
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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If you’re going through hell, keep going.
July ⤴
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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Magna Carta... Jden Grail
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Solitude is the place of purification.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
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Your body hears everything your mind says.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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The best feeling in the world is knowing your presence and absence both mean something to someone.
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To get where you want to go you can’t only do what you like.
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Old friends are best.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it’s all that matters.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
June ⤴
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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Life is not perfect.
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Installing iOS 7 without a Developer Account
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We cannot put off living until we are ready.
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You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Peace begins with a smile.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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An overflow of good converts to bad.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
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Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
May ⤴
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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I don’t have any shame.
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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been 'No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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What we think, we become.
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Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
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I’ve never been afraid to fail.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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Creativity is intelligence having fun.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Misc drawings April 2013
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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Shit Bro
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You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
April ⤴
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I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.
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If you don’t appreciate it, you don’t deserve it.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
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Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
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Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
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I think, therefore I am.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.
March ⤴
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Our work is never over.
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
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Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
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Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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Don’t believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
February ⤴
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Peace begins with a smile.
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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Since when has redundancy and overzealous Barnum statements become the authority on wisdom?
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
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People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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After a storm comes a calm.
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All great achievements require time.
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Edithburger
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2012 in 30 seconds
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely.
January ⤴
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The first and great commandment is, don’t let them scare you.
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Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
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Joy always came after pain.
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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognise the truth.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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Practice will not make you perfect but it will make you better.
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
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Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.
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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
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Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
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Things do not change; we change.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Character is what a man is in the dark.
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He makes no friends who never made a foe.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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Where there is love there is life.
