Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1072 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Through the Way of love. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If those of us who are living in conflicts of any kind would only try love's way, even for a short time, we never could be induced to go back to the old way of living. We could never again be satisfied with the old scolding, jealous, anxious, faultfinding, slave-driving, worrying ways. Why not try the experiment? You who have been tortured and torn to pieces for years with hot tempers, with worry, with fear, with hatred and ill will; you who have already wasted many years of your life, why not turn your back on all this and try love's way? ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 d

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from from a popular essay that appeared many times in newspapers during the early 1900s. The author is unknown. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Manuscript: I believe in the cheery whistle of the bobwhite. I believe in smiles, even though the heart is heavy; in lending a hand; in stopping in the shade of a tree on the road of life; to chat a while with some neighbors; in saying kind things before it is too late; in keeping my eyes on the stars though I walk in the mud.I believe that nothing can hurt me save only as I allow it; that each failure brings me nearer the ultimate success; that should I ever reach the topmost rung of the ladder, I should make way

Listen to episode 1071 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Mystery of the Great Writer. Edited and adapted from “Campfires & Guideposts” by Henry van Dyke.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: IT is a curious fact that there is no good guide book to authorship. There are, of course, lots of self-portraits of authors at work. And there are many essays upon the craft of writing in general. The best of these portraits and advice are excellent reading, full of entertainment and instruction for the alert and candid mind, and touched with a special, sympathetic interest for those young persons who have sternly resolved, or fondly dreamed, that they will follow a literary career. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://liv

Listen to episode 1070 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building a Powerful Personality. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Personality is the sum of what you are. Personality means character— plus. Many persons have a good character, but a personality signifies something other than honesty, truthfulness, industry, and the like. It embodies all these and something more. Personality implies pleasing, winning ways, graciousness, heartiness, enthusiasm, magnetism. To have a gracious personality we must cultivate graciousness. To have a personality that radiates the right qualities, we must possess the right qualities. We cannot wear the right kind of personality and be the wrong kind of person. We may indeed have brilliant talents and un-selfish natures, and yet fail to cultivate or exhibit the kind of personality that inspires love and admiration. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Concentration: The Road to Success by Henry Harrison Brown, published in 1907. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Manuscript: Among the many forms and methods of concentration, prayer is the most common and the most potent. The secret of the religious world has been that prayer at the altar; with a prayer-book; through hymn, ritual, rite, and environment; has led the soul to the contemplation of holy thoughts, and by concentrating upon them, the thought thus sown in the mind has influenced the life for good.Our Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdve

Listen to episode 1069 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Life Can Change in an Instant. Edited and adapted from New Thought Healing Made Plain by Kate Atkinson Boehme.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In the forming of an organism, there is a moment when the Quickening comes; and from that moment, the organism becomes a creature of new life and action. Before the Quickening, it has life in a certain sense — that is, it grows and has some functional activities. But after the Quickening, it has a new power: that of independent movement, of acting upon impulses of its own. From being a negative being that is acted upon, it becomes an acting entity, an individual with a will of its own.---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program:

Listen to episode 1068 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Personality and Your Speaking Voice: How to Develop Them by Clare Tree Major.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You may impress people through your physical poise; your refined voice and charm; the jewels of wisdom you have culled from life; but the real test of your power of personality lies in your command of the art of conversation. The first rule of good conversation is to have something worth saying, and to say it as briefly and interestingly as possible. Merely pouring out a constant stream of words isn't conversation. No one can be more thoroughly and unforgivably boring  than the man or woman whose habit it is to  deluge every long suffering acquaintance with an unending flow of speech.---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/pa

Listen to episode 1067 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Uplift Instead of Criticize. Adapted from the book: “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When we realize that to attain even a partial control over our own thoughts is a wonderful achievement (while complete self-mastery borders on the miraculous), the absurdity of trying to regulate the behavior of others is made so plain that no one can evade admitting it. Action is the manifestation of thought. Imagination then may be said to be pictured thought, while personality is the materialization of Imagination. The more active the imagination, the more ingenuity is required to guide it into constructive paths and away from those that lead to criticism and condemnation of others whose conduct does not happen to meet with our approval, or whose example we fear may not be quite what it should be for somebody else. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons

Listen to episode 1066 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Science of Being Great. Adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, you can develop your own mental faculties. Each one of us has an inherent power by which we may grow in whatsoever direction we please, and there does not appear to be any limit to the possibilities of our growth. No person has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for someone else to become greater. The possibility is in the Original Substance from which we are made. Genius is Omniscience flowing into humanity. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJE

Listen to episode 1065 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Work. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda.Motivational Podcast Excerpt: One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. It was from a great person that I learned this principle, and their own life was a practical demonstration of it. I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to the end. Our Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 1064 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Self-Pity. Adapted from Health Through Will Power by Dr. James J. Walsh.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Aristotle declared that tragedy purges life, that is, that only through the lens of death and misfortune can one see life free from the dross of the sordid and merely material to which it is attached. His meaning was that tragedy lifts us above the selfishness of mere individualism. And by showing us the misfortunes of others, it prepares us to struggle against whatever misfortunes might come, as they almost inevitably will. At the same time, tragedy lifts us above the trifles of daily life into a higher, broader sphere of living, where we better realize our true selves and powers.---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/pat

Listen to episode 1063 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Mistakes in Life. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Realizing mistakes is good; acting on them is better. When a captain finds his vessel is out of the right channel, carried by negligence, by adverse winds, or by blundering through a fog from the true course, he wastes no time in bemoaning his mistake, but at the first sunburst takes new bearings, changes his course, steers bravely towards his harbor with renewed courage to make up the time he has lost. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONOur Sponsors:* Check out Sh

Listen to episode 1062 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Thoughts on Love. Edited and adapted from Kahlil Gibran’s book The Prophet.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When love beckons to you, follow it — though its ways are hard and steep. And when its wings enfold you, yield to it — though its hidden sword may wound you. And when love speaks to you, believe in it — though its voice may shatter your dreams, as the winter wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you, so shall it crucify you. Even as it is for your growth, so it is also for your pruning. Even as love ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that shimmer in the sun, so shall it descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.Our Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Listen to episode 1061 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Integrity & Self-Respect | Building Your Personal Brand. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Self-respect is one of the basic ingredients that go to make success. If we lose respect for ourselves, we will sooner or later lose the respect of others. Self-respect is not pride. It is not haughtiness. It is that hard-to-define "something" which prevents us from stooping to meanness, pettiness, harshness, bossiness; which resents every form of unfairness; which rebels against injustice; which compels us to have scrupulous regard for the rights and feelings of others. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation

Listen to episode 1060 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Be of Good Cheer. Edited and adapted from The Blessing of Cheerfulness by James Russell Miller.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everyone carries an atmosphere about them. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in. Or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle. We are responsible for this atmosphere. Our influence may be involuntary in its final effect. We cannot wholly change it from evil to good on any particular day by a mere volition. It is something that belongs to our personality. It is an emanation from our character; and our character is the growth of all our years, what has been built up in us by all the lessons, experiences, impressions, and influences of life, from childhood. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperb

Listen to episode 1059 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You are Part of the Great Chain of Life. Adapted Edited and adapted from The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each individual, busied with their own affairs and blinded by their own interests, is likely to take themselves for granted and forget that they are a part of a great, unbroken procession of life, which began at the beginning and will go on till the end. Strange indeed would it be if all the generations who have lived, struggled, and died before us, and whose blood flows in our veins had left no impression upon us. We are a part of all that has gone before, and all that comes after us will be a part of us. Each generation receives, through heredity, the products of the long experience through which their ancestors have passed. The generation receiving the gift today lives its own brief life, makes its own little contribution to the sum total, and then passes on as millions have done before. -----

Listen to episode 1058 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Gospel of Good Living | Agnostic Spirituality. Adapted from “What Must We Do to Be Saved” by Robert G. Ingersoll.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness; the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves. I believe the time will come when the public thought will be so great and grand that we will no longer perpetuate disease with our bad habits. I believe the time will come when we will not fill the future with cancer and insanity. I believe the time will come when we will study ourselves, and understand the laws of health and then we will say: “We are under divine obligation to put the flags of health in the cheeks of our children.”---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podc

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918. This series has over 200 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How little do the majority of us realize that everything that is desirable is so only because of its cost in effort! Supposing the Creator had provided everything full grown, ready made for our use, and that every human being had been college educated when born; supposing every wish could be gratified without any effort on our part, who would want to live in such a backboneless, jellyfish world, where there was no stamina, no initiative, no grit, no resolution, no

Listen to episode 1057 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World is Calling You | Uplifting Podcasts. Adapted from Beginning Right (How to Succeed) by Nathanial C. Fowler.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The monument of success is but a collection of little successes, a gathering together of small things well done. If you stand in the majesty, and dignity, and glory of your personality, with your feet planted upon the material earth and your eyes looking into the sky of opportunity, fail not to realize that (so long as the sun shines or the rain descends, so long as there is day or night) you, not others, are in command of your wonderful majesty.---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30

Listen to episode 1056 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The True Meaning & Power of Freedom. Edited and adapted from Where Dwells the Soul Serene by Stanton Davis Kirkham.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To explore the unknown regions of the mind, to seek that shining land where dwells the Soul, serene — here is a work worthy of the true explorer's mettle. Let us explore this world of thought; let us blaze a path and wear a trail up over the mountains; let us recount our escape from the wilderness, and leave a record of our journey from bondage to freedom.It is the royal privilege of every person to so live that their life and example shall be an inspiration; to so walk erect and free that others shall be obliged to inquire as to the means of our freedom. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghou