Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern
Duncan Trussell joins David Nichtern for a conversation about navigating success and contentment in our spiritual and career paths.
CLEAR ALL
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
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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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.