The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
A. J. JACOBSI know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There’s something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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Scrabble – The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
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