“I think the Bible is largely an amazing and beautiful book of fictional stories from which we can glean the most wholesome lessons about how to treat one another decently.”
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
“How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?”
― Allan Quatermain
― Allan Quatermain
“Now, there are things I like just fine about church, and I don’t just mean making money. The notion of getting together as a community to remind ourselves why we shouldn’t behave like animals is a fucking great idea.”
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
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“It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.”
― King Solomon's Mines
― King Solomon's Mines
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