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It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

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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 was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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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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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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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 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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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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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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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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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 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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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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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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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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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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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