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.
A. J. JACOBSI’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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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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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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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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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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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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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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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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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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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