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"If we want to change ourselves in some important way, it's best not to wait for insight or inspiration. Sometimes we need to act- to begin writing that paper, to make those phone calls, to see that person- even if we don't feel like acting. To strengthen our convictions, it helps to enact them. In this way, faith and love are alike: If we keep them to ourselves, they shrivel. If we enact and express them, they grow."

"It is not as difficult to find a person who has never succumbed to a given temptation as to find a person who has succumbed only once"

"Many socializers have occupations such as public relations specialists, talk show hosts, trial attorneys, social directors on cruise ships, hotel personnel, and other glamorous, high-profile careers."

"How can we know the unknowable, fathom the unfathomable, or calculate the incalculable?"

"Ignoring luck, overlooking happenstance, and pretending fortune doesn't matter is not in our own best interest. It's time to abandon our aspirations to omniscience and accept that accident is unavoidable. It's time to sing the praises of serendipity and light a candle for luck"