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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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
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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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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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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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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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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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 know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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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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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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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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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 thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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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