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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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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Scrabble – The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
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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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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and 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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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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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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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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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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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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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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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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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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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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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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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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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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