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.
A. J. JACOBSI’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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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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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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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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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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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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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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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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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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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 thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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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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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
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Behavior shapes emotions.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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 am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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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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