"If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine. If you walk alone for awhile, fine. If you don't like what's going on somewhere, leave. Maintain a portable paradise within yourself."

-- Peter McWilliams

#Fighting Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Want Quotes

“I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
“I know who I am and the values I have.”
“They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.”
“People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.”
“â€¢ The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldnâ€™t bear not to defend it and the losses you are going to suffer are things that you could afford to lose. If you do fight, the thing to remember is that it is going to hurt because that is what happens in a fight and you might as well reconcile yourself to it in the beginning and then it will not matter when it happens”
“The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.”

Source : "Does Reason Lead to Atheism or Theism?". "Reasonable Faith Podcast" with Kevin Harris, www.reasonablefaith.org. July 23, 2012.
“Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.”
“The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.”

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