81 Thought-Provoking And Honest Illustrations About Our Lives By Stephan Schmitz

Failure is the ladder to success, but one should clean up the mess, or you can slip and break your neck!

People only see the success, and not the hard work to get it and which implies failures.

Failure is the only way to succeed, and the more you succeed the less you will fail. This is true in all aspects, art, photography, writing, science. No matter the discipline, the more you fail, the more you will learn, the more you learn, the higher you will go if you keep working at it. No one started out knowing everything. No one.

And all those people would laugh at you if they saw the missteps

The superficiality of social media relationships taking away from what we most need - real connection.

The weird part of social networks is that something that's meant to unite people by letting them share their lives with millions other people all over the globe is kind of (often) turning into a show where people spend more time posing for pics to show off their "fun life" than they spend time actually living that fun life. Same goes for being social. The irony of the situation portrayed is it's actually kinda likely some or even most of those happily hanging out people are generally feeling lonely themselves and that's exactly why they're posting pics like that - to at least *look* like they're not lonely, because they're like "damn everyone is posting pics of hanging out with friends, I need to post one too so I don't stand out and appear weird/lonely/whatever"

I get it social media can be bad bullying, people hating their own lives thinking everyone elses is amazing etc. however it going to be a big part of our future and when used well it means u can show all your friends at once really easily what you are doing if you're in another country and make friends u can both follow eachother etc.

Bitter reality

I love this one...and rain. 😊

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference

RAAAAAAAAAIN DOOOOOOWN! RAIN DOOOOOWN, COME AND RAAAAAAAAAAAAIM DOOOOOOOWN! OH-OOOOH-OH! From the greaaaaat height... From the greaaaaaaaat heiiiiiiiiii-ay-ay-ayt! Heiiiiiii-ay-ay-ayt! ♬♪

As a woman who has never known her father- he disappeared while I was still to young to have any memories of him- this one makes my heart wistfully sad.

I'm lucky to have a fantastic father. When my parents divorced my mum wasn't capable of bringing me up on her own, so my parents had two choices: my dad become sole carer or that I go into care. He gave up his job to become a full time father and after 15 years is still here for me. My nieces' dad on the other hand is a complete moron and does nothing for them

My dad is 87 and I'm 51 and I still feel this way with my dad. He's my hero.

It must be so nice to have that.

Wish I could frame this one

Brutally true.

As a Marine, this one makes me the most upset. Not that the image was made, but that the reality of the situation has been ignored for so long by those in command. There are not a lot of situations that make me want to hurt people, but one where someone takes advantage of another, and gets away with it because the higher ups don't want to "make waves" is one of those that do. This is actually infuriating me as I write this.....

Nicely introduced

wow this makes me sad

It's hard work sometimes.

Well .. both have to sew it in order to get it done.

...sitting there, watching her fixing it.

at least they're trying : )

...and as usual, the FEMALE does all the work to mend it (even if it’s not her fault that it’s broken)....

One tweet at a time.

Interesting choice of color

The guy yelling doesn't look like Trump at all...

Get in discussions with idiots... whatever clear hard fact you may deliever it's all fixed and faked. No men on the moon, homeopathy, hollow earth, geocentrism, HAARP, biblical literalism, creationists etc. Days of fun!

Trump?

We all hide our feelings every day. This resonates with me

Depression

It's a gray matter.

Wish someone would come and wash my brain of all the c**p it retains.

For some situations in life that would not be a bad idea

This is not part of Grey's Anatomy... OR IS IT!!!!?

Corporations, media and the governments brainwash our everyday lives all the time. Corporations depict the demographics and lifestyles of how they view their customers they want using their products, but often it's very exaggerated and stereotypical societal behaviour and ideals that people think should now be a normalcy. The government, too. No need to follow the tin foiled hat crowd to see that the government controls everything in our daily lives. Sure we have freedoms. But at a cost and what they allow as permissible. Just look at all the stupid laws and requirements being put in place. And if you're not okay with what the government says you're deemed unpatriotic. And in the States you could even get accused of being a terrorist or too anti-American to be considered an acceptable citizen.

We always carry it with us.