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There’s a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

A. J. Jacobs

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action–no matter what the action is–might help you feel better.
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Action Better Feeling Finding Help Yourself
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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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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Feeling Goodness Job Myself
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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Aware Book Country Grow Knowledge Person Read Reading Right Speak
The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I’m more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.
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Day Focus Myself Right Talk Thankful Wrong
It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz
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Different Life Responsibility Way World Yourself
I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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Finding Gratitude Love Religion
Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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Evolution God Growth Interest Kindness Oneself
It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
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Bad Mood Play Sports Walk Yourself
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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Affection Bible Fan Love Read Support Writing Year
The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Eat Food Plant
Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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Alive Eat Emotion Jealous Myself Time Wasted Time
I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Myself Religion Science Worship
I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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Adequate Circle Creation Good Habit Ideas Little Small Success Will Power
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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Decision Life Ourselves Power

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