Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
A. J. JACOBSI grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful 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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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 was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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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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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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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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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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There’s a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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