Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

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 a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown, published in 1893. 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.Podcast Manuscript: I used to think that friendship meant happiness. I have learned that it means discipline. Look around how we may, we shall never find a friend without faults, imperfections, traits that vex, grieve, and annoy us. Strive as we will, we ourselves can never fully fulfill the ideal of us that is in our friend's mind: we inevitably come short of it. Yet let us not give up friendship, though we have found this to be true.Our Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://s

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

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice, published in 1942. 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.Podcast Excerpt: Rabindranath Tagore stresses throughout his teachings the necessity of knowing the soul apart from the self. He goes so far as to say that sin is the defeat of your soul by your own sense of Self. Now this Self, which we think we know so well, is really a mysterious thing, beguiling us with its importance, deluding us into the belief that it is the ultimate goal of our desires.Our Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://

Listen to episode 1055 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Edited and adapted from A Gentle Heart by James Russell Miller.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Cheerfulness is a prime secret of health. It keeps one well. It keeps one young. It is one of the secrets of youth.The philosopher Swedenborg once said that in heaven the oldest angels are the youngest. All life there is toward youth. One reason must be that all life there is cheerful and joyous. If the people in heaven still fretted, and complained, and got discouraged, and went about with heavy hearts and long faces (cheerless and despondent, as so many people do here) — they would get very old by the time they had been a few millenniums in heaven. But being always of good cheer, they keep always young, growing ever towards youth. ---------------------                                 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

Listen to episode 1054 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for a Beautiful Life. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Beautiful lives have blossomed in the darkest places, just as pure white lilies full of fragrance do on the slimy, stagnant waters. No possession is so productive of real influence as a highly cultivated intellect. Wealth, birth, and official station may (and do) secure to their possessors an external, superficial courtesy; but they never did, and never can, command the reverence of the heart. It is only the men and women of large and noble soul (who blend a cultivated mind with an upright heart) who earn the tribute of deep and genuine respect.---------------------                                 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

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice, published in 1942. 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.Podcast Excerpt: Religion in its highest and most intense manifestation results in the spiritual enlightenment we call mysticism. It is an emotional perception and personal experience of the immediate presence of God. As the heights of poetry and the other arts have been reached by a Shakespeare, a Beethoven, a Michelangelo, so have the heights of communion with God been attained by geniuses of the spiritual realm.Our Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this

Listen to episode 1053 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Public Speaking | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from the book Self-Investment by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1911.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It does not matter whether you want to be a public speaker or not. A person should have such complete control of themselves, should be so self-reliant and self-poised, that they can get up in front of any audience, no matter how large or formidable, and express their thoughts clearly and distinctly. Self-expression in some manner is the only means of developing mental power. It may be in music; it may be on canvas; it may be through oratory; it may come through selling goods or writing a book; but it must come through self-expression. Self-expression in any legitimate form tends to call out what is in us, our resourcefulness and inventiveness. But no other form of self-expression develops us so thoroughly and so effectively, and so quickly unfolds all of our powers, as speaking before an

Listen to episode 1052 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Master Mind | Napoleon Hill’s Keys to Success. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of wealth—in any form. PLANS are inert and useless, without sufficient power to translate them into ACTION. Today I will describe the method by which any individual may attain and apply power. Power maybe defined as "organized and intelligently directed KNOWLEDGE." Power, as the term is here used, refers to ORGANIZED effort, sufficient to enable an individual to transmute DESIRE into wealth (whatever that may be). ---------------------                                 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://livingh

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Dollars and Sense by William Crosbie Hunter, published in 1907.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.Podcast Excerpt: One of the first human laws was "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," but as time went on and we developed mentally, our animal instincts were subordinated and the law was changed, and the new law was this: "return good for evil." Nearly every person who has an injury done to them tries to repay the injury. They must either repay it with good or with evil. If you repay it with evil you do not get satisfaction. If you repay it with good, you get h

Listen to episode 1051 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life is the Great School. Edited & adapted from “The School of Life” by Henry van Dyke.Uplifting Podcast Excerpt: Life itself is the great school. Facts are teachers. Experiences are lessons. Friends are guides. Work is a master. Love is an interpreter. Teaching itself is a method of learning. Joy carries a divining rod and discovers fountains. Sorrow is an astronomer and shows us the stars. What I have lived I really know, and what I really know I partly own; and so beginning with what I know and what I own, I move through my curriculum, elective and required, gaining nothing but what I learn, at once instructed by every duty and every pleasure. ---------------------                                 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 1041 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Your Self-Confidence. Edited from adapted from “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Have confidence in yourself. Believe in your ability to do big things. Only by having faith in yourself, can you compel others to have faith in you. Think big thoughts and back them up with big deeds. You can, if you will. And you will.Many a little seed has longed to develop and send a little shoot up toward the sunshine. But growth has always been delayed until suddenly the outer wall that limited its growth is burst apart! Many lives are in the same condition: the wall of thought that limits them must be burst before real growth can occur.---------------------                                 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 l

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Levels of Living by Henry Frederick Cope.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.Podcast Excerpt: Make life happier and you will make it holier. Make it full of pleasure (and not that of a fool's paradise). Make it that of peace with heaven's plans, with the joy of knowing that over all is infinite love, with the strength that comes from knowing right is invincible, with the tender and sweet joys that spring up at the touch of human love. Go your own way to make them paths of gladness, to show love shining through sorrow, to give love generously to all, and yours shall be a reli

Listen to episode 1040 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Concentration and Meditation. Edited and adapted from Concentration and Meditation by Swami Paramananda.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: WE all possess the faculty of concentration, but with the majority it is instinctive and automatic, not conscious. Even among the animals, we see how a lion or tiger will gather their strength by a moment of absolute stillness before they spring upon their prey. That automatic, instinctive power of concentration is embedded in every living creature. But until we can gain conscious command over our mental and spiritual forces, we can never have complete concentration. ---------------------                                 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/majes

Listen to episode 1039 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Wisdom to Meditate Upon. Edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You want to know you can get the most out of life? How you can keep from having that sense of dissatisfaction when going to bed at night? How you can have, instead, that feeling of contentment, that the past twenty-four hours were worthwhile? Well, this hint may help: The Secret of Permanent Pleasure Lies in Cultivating Ever Higher Forms of Pleasure... ---------------------                                 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 Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalS

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Evening Round Up by William Crosbie Hunter, published in 1915. 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.Podcast Excerpt: Do you have a friend who has been a great help and comfort to you? I have such a friend. Tonight I am in the mood to think of that friend and write them a letter like this....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