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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.

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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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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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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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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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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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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
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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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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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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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