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. JACOBSTaking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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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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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they’d get along OK, but they’d both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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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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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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When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.
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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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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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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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