The Most Inspiring Words of C.S. Lewis
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 846 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Inspiring Words of C.S. Lewis. Edited and adapted from the works of C.S. Lewis.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “Reality is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect… You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
“Do not dare not to dare… Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
| 0:06.0 | businesses like Magic Spoon and Mattel, who sell through the roof, you probably attribute |
| 0:12.2 | their success to great products and a strong brand. But an often overlooked secret is actually |
| 0:18.0 | the business behind the business, the one which makes selling and buying simple. |
| 0:23.4 | For millions of retail businesses, that business is Shopify. |
| 0:29.6 | Nobody does selling better than Shopify, because no checkout system is better at converting |
| 0:35.8 | shoppers into buyers. With Shopify, you can sell wherever |
| 0:40.3 | your customers are a scrolling or strolling, on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere |
| 0:48.7 | in between. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout that Magic Spoon and Mattel use. |
| 0:55.6 | Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com |
| 1:00.3 | slash inspirational. |
| 1:03.4 | All lowercase. |
| 1:05.3 | Go to Shopify.com slash inspirational to upgrade your selling today. |
| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.2 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Works of C.S. Lewis. |
| 1:58.1 | A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. No book is really worth reading at the age of 10, which is not equally, |
| 2:05.6 | and often far more, worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond. Someday you will be old enough |
| 2:15.6 | to start reading fairy tales again. |
| 2:22.3 | We all want progress, |
| 2:25.3 | but if you're on the wrong road, |
| 2:28.3 | progress means doing in about turn and walking back to the right road. In that case, the person who turns back soonest is the most progressive. |
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