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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.

A. J. Jacobs

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Eat Food Plant
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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Dream Explore Live Love Mindset Sandal Shop Wanted
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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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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Cloud Ground Head Live Religion World
I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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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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Affection Bible Fan Love Read Support Writing Year
Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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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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Altars Bless Christ Donate Holy Humanity Love People Religious Surrounding
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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Day Focus Myself Right Talk Thankful Wrong
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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Beauty Beyond Forgive Nature Powerful Rational Unconditional Love
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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Aware Book Country Grow Knowledge Person Read Reading Right Speak
Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He’s wrathful, but at other times, He’s incredibly compassionate. He’s not a one-dimensional figure at all.
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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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Evolution God Growth Interest Kindness Oneself
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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Appeal Decide Food Innocent Plant Vegetable Violence
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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Decision Life Ourselves Power
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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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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