“Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.”
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living
“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― The Forest House
― The Forest House
“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
“I find it consistently difficult to get around the notion that we are all, in our very natures, assholes. I am an asshole. I’m afraid you are also. That’s why the conversation about good manners even exists in the first place. We’re cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we’re assholes first.”
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living
“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― The Fall of Atlantis
― The Fall of Atlantis
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