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As an adult Lewis explained this seeming contradiction, saying that, “He [God] was, in my mental picture…merely a magician,” and not a very talented one at that. A faith as “irreligious” as his was at that time didn’t count.
“Could it, indeed, be that simple?! . . . Yes, it could. It felt like for the first time in my life, I had the power to decide something this big and make it happen. Without anyone’s approval, without permission, without any external motivation like getting an A in a math class. I could do this because I WANTED to, even if it was scary and might go up in flames. In that moment, I realized that I had been missing an amazing truth: No matter what you feel is holding you back in life . . .”
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― You're Never Weird on the Internet
“I was a library loyalist, paper was always superior, and flipping through the index cards made me feel industrious.”
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― You're Never Weird on the Internet
“Even though every single second of filming was stressful and panicked and done completely illegally and the very hardest way, I’d never felt more alive doing anything in my life. There was a joy that I’d never felt before, because I was PLAYING with my friends.”
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
“Put the fear of God into yourself. Okay, I’m not religious. Whatever spiritual ideas float your boat. Read some obituaries, watch the first fifteen minutes of Up, I don’t care. Just scare yourself good. You have a finite number of toothpaste tubes you will ever consume while on this planet. Make the most of that clean tooth time. For yourself.”
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
“Days after I got my Real Degree, I moved west. I didn’t go completely unprepared (I was only 95 percent stupid at the time), I had a few cards up my sleeve.”
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
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