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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time—for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
We are what we believe we are!
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?