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All lowercase.

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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Cause of Failure and How to Overcome It by Thomas Z. Davis, published in 1918.

There is no bigger shirker than the person who never does anything to help answer their own prayers.

Opportunity is the gate that points to the way of success.

If we would win the race of life, that leads to the way of success,

we must open the gate of opportunity ourselves.

If the gate stood always open, it would not be doing the service

of a gate. If the passage through the gateway were perfectly free and unobstructed,

then the one who passes in would have no more credit than the one who chooses to remain without.

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