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. JACOBSI’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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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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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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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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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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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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 found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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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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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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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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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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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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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