Garrett

“In our affluent Western culture, growing up for many of us is weirdly optional. Historically, men have had no choice but to grow up. They had to work to eat. They had to defend themselves, their families, and their communities. But most of us here and now can choose the life of an entertainment consumer, just moving from one experience to the next.”
― Brant Hansen, The Men We Need: God’s Purpose for the Manly Man, the Avid Indoorsman, or Any Man Willing to Show Up

“Get behind me, Satan! For you  bare not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“To procure friendship only for better and not for worse is to rob it of all its dignity.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Character and wit have their own magnetism. Send a deep man into any town, and he will find another deep man there, unknown hitherto to his neighbors. That is the great happiness of life, — to add to our high acquaintances.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Success