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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.

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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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Delay Sheep Sleep Study
Its sort of my job to feel good.
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Feeling Goodness Job Myself
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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Believe Change Emotion Equality Ethics Eye Fact God Nice Prayer Religion Worship
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 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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Immunity Invitation Polite Stay System Welcome Yourself
I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Myself Religion Science Worship
Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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Greatness Illusion Love Oneself Powerful
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 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
I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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Garden Good Natural Positivity
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
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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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Alive Eat Emotion Jealous Myself Time Wasted Time
Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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