"A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is."

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Source : John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.151, Whitaker House

John G. Lake

#Character Quotes #Impulse Quotes

“No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.”
“But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.”
“The union of a want and a sentiment.”
“When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.”

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“We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.”

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“In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.”
“It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me, you don't even realize you've lost them, not until they come back to you.”
“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.”

Source : "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.newyorker.com. 2012.

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