Cartoonist Gavin Aung Than of Zen Pencils adapts famous inspirational quotes into comic stories. This “A Puppeteer’s Advice” comic is one of our favs based on a quote from the mind of the late, great Jim Henson:

Artist: Gavin Aung Than of Zen Pencils

Here is the full Jim Henson quote from the comic transcribed:

“Most people, and particularly kids, don’t realize that they are in control of their lives. And they’re the ones that are going to make the decisions. And they’re the ones that are going to make it one way or the other.

Usually adolescence is a time when kids feel that the world is doing it to them. Whether it’s their parents doing it to them, or their teachers doing it to them, or their other friends doing it to them. And that they are the victim in all of this.

Somewhere in here you have to learn that you’re not the victim. But instead you’re the one who is doing it.

That moment is sometimes a long, slow realization, or sometimes it’s turning on a light switch.

All of a sudden you realize that you are the person who has control of your life.”

-Jim Henson