"Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel."

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Source : Source: app.longform.org

Ian Bogost

#Ideas Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.”
“I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.”
“I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.”
“Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.”
“Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be in the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights.”
“Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.”
“Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God.”

Source : Lewis Sperry Chafer, Robert J. Choun, Jr. (2004). “Salvation: God's Marvelous Work of Grace”, p.45, Kregel Publications
“I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.”

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