"Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?"

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Source : D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.15, Zondervan

David Lloyd-Jones

#Talking Quotes #Listening Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.”
“Sometimes people will bring up these odd things that I did a one-off from. Like, I did a 'Knight Rider,' and I'll get an E-mail from a 'Knight Rider' fan who says, 'Look what I did to my car!' And I don't know if you know about this, but there is a sub-cult of 'Knight Rider' fan who trick out their cars to look like KITT. I'm, like, 'Really? Isn't there anything else you can do? Do you make that much money? Because I have projects I'd like to get off the ground, so how about you don't make KITT and you give it to me?'”
“If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”
“One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.”
“...but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down...”
“I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.”
“First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.”
“A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.”

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