There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the joy and excitement found in challenge and unpredictability rather than in certainty and ease.
Fred Bear's quote suggests that engaging in activities with certain challenges, like hunting with a bow, brings more joy and fulfillment than opting for an easier, more predictable method, such as using a gun. It emphasizes the idea that overcoming difficulties can enhance our experiences and make them more rewarding.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing challenges, this quote can be used to illustrate that the journey can be more enjoyable than the destination.
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's way of fang and claw and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.
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