I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
A. J. JACOBSPaintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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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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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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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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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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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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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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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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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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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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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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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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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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My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It’s far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y’all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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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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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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