Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful 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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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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Behavior shapes emotions.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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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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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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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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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After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It’s just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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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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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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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