by Mike Duran · 2 comments
L to R, Top: Tricia and Krystal, Middle: Melody, Lisa, and Alayna, Bottom: Mike, Jacob, Jon, Chris, and Theo
From the Duran family to yours, have a blessed Thanksgiving!
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. -- Franz Kafka
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman. -- Homer Simpson
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. -- Baudelaire
The doubts of some are more indicative of a love for truth than the belief of others. -- John Ker
When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name. -- Charles Spurgeon
Too much abuse has gone on for too long. -- Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? -- St. Francis de Sales
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. -- Buddha
Life is all your moments in a row. -- The Elms, Burn and Shine
Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. -- Samuel Johnson
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. -- Woody Allen
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. -- G.K. Chesterton
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder. -- The Beatles
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. -- Thomas Merton
I'd rather be ruled by a competent turk than an incompetent Christian. -- Martin Luther
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. -- Will Rogers
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle
Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. -- Jesus
In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere. -- Charles Fort
The role of the artist is to not look away. -- Akira Kurosawa
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest. -- Aristotle
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. -- French Proverb
Something always takes the place of missing pieces. -- Beck, Guero
What you look at hard seems to look at you. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. -- Herman Melville
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. -- Thomas A. Edison
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. -- Flannery O'Connor
True friends stab you in the front. -- Oscar Wilde
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat." -- C.S. Lewis
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. -- Jacques Barzun
Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. -- Stephen King
All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might. -- James Martineau
It is much better to know something about everything, than everything about something. -- Pascal
How will we open the eyes of the dead, when we are hollow? -- Project 86, Truthless Heroes
There are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render. -- Degas
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. -- Charles Dickens
I have no fear of drowning, It's the breathing that's taking all this work. -- Jars of Clay, Good Monsters
The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language. -- Frederick Buechner
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church. -- Martin Luther
When I am king you will be first against the wall. -- Radiohead, OK Computer
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. -- G.K. Chesterton
Trust the evolutionary process. It's all going to work out all right. -- Timothy Leary
We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again. -- T-Bone Burnett, The Criminal Under My Own Hat
Action to relieve suffering is the abortion of karma. -- Os Guiness
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. -- Henry Kissinger
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Great photo, Mike. Blessings to you and yours this Thanksgiving.
Great family. The joy of giving thanks to you and yours today, Mike.