"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"

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Source : Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16, 2012.

Lynn Johnston

#Brother Quotes #People Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.”
“I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.”

Source : "Crikey What an Adventure". Documentary, 2007.
“There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.”
“The only thing to fear is fearlessness.”
“What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.”
“The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.”
“If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.”
“How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation”

Source : Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.34, Harmony

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