Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 865 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Choose Your Life’s Road. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : All roads start from where you are. They run in all directions, and you may wonder which is the best road to take. All have a way of their own of inviting you, and each has its own particular enticement...

Listen to episode 864 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Live a Life Worthy of Immortality. Edited and adapted from Making a Life by Cortland Myers. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : A noble purpose is life's guarding, guiding angel. It alone can take us safely through a lion's den. In one hand it holds safety, and in the other success. A high ideal is a lever under your life, and means th...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Evening Round Up by William Crosbie Hunter. Podcast Excerpt : Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today I would like to share with you an episode of the Our Sunday Talks series which we offer to our patrons. It’s a useful reminder that one of the greatest gifts that we can give to a friend, family member, or loved one...

Listen to episode 863 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Embracing Change & A Joyful Future. Edited & adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When you begin to help yourself by doing what you can in your own way, you will find help as you progresses — help that will come in unexpected ways, and as you need it. Disasters must, nece...

Listen to episode 862 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Financial Success. Edited and Adapted from Three lectures on "The Laws of Financial Success" by B.F. Austin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Financial success is won by those who dare to think big. Little thoughts, plans, and ideals beget little interest, little effort, little enthusiasm in the individual, and awaken...

Listen to episode 861 of the Inspirational Living podcast: When to Do When Things Go Wrong. Edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Once in a while, we may be placed in the trying position of not being able to blame anyone for our plight, and, as we think things over, we are forced to admit that were circumstances to be again arran...

Listen to episode 860 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of a Joyful Heart | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Many centuries ago that wise and admirable philosopher, Epictetus, discovered that "happiness is not in strength, or wealth, or power; or all three. It lies in ourselves, in true freed...

Listen to episode 859 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Eternal Wisdom of Henry Ward Beecher. Edited from the works of Henry Ward Beecher. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : “‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard taskmaster to yourself — and be lenient to everybody else.” “No person can tell whet...

Listen to episode 858 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Transformative Power of Love & Service. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We must touch other lives or lose power. We are so constituted that a thousand relations with our community are necessary for our largest development, our completest life. When we cut ourselves off from...

Listen to episode 857 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Being Thorough. Edited and adapted from The Mastery of Destiny by James Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : THOROUGHNESS consists in doing little things as though they were the greatest things in the world. That the little things of life are of primary importance, is a truth not generally understood. And the thought that li...

Listen to episode 856 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Start the Day for Success. Edited and adapted from Nerve Control and How to Gain It by H.Addington Bruce. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Most people take it for granted that it doesn’t matter how they get out of bed. Actually, getting out of bed can greatly aid both your health and efficiency. Recently this has been rightly emphasi...

Listen to episode 855 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Optimism to Transform Your Life. Adapted from the essay Optimism by Helen Keller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I knew only darkness and stillness. Now I know hope and joy. Once I fretted and beat my...

Listen to episode 854 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Turning Solitude Into Abundance. Edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Each of us rules over an uncharted kingdom of untold possibilities, which has but one subject: that is you, yourself. Yet in this vast solitude we are never alone, for through it all the wisdom of the world has passe...

Listen to episode 853 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Truly Free & Happy. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When our tongues are tied we cannot speak; when our hands are tied we cannot labor; when our feet are tied we cannot travel. If we lived under a tyrant who, with little warning, tied our tongue, hands, and feet,...

Listen to episode 852 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding Your Place in the World. Edited and adapted from Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There is a place for every human being in the world — a special place and a special work for each one of us to do; a work which no other person can do; a work that is essentially and wholly...

Listen to episode 851 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Start Living a Joyful Life Today. Adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Whatever comes, or whatever you meet, or whatever you are called upon to do, proceed with peace and joy. Be glad that you have the opportunity to prove your own power, and thus elevate yourself thereby. Be supre...

Listen to episode 850 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keys to a Noble and Successful Life. Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above by Gustavus S. Kimball. Inspirational Podcast Transcript : Remember that it is OPPORTUNITY that makes you and your fortune, provided you have learned how to take advantage of the opportunity. Opportunity comes sooner or later to everyone, but rare is t...

Listen to episode 849 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build a Real Heroic Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Work by Hugh Black. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life, after all, is largely a matter of detail. It is filled up to all of us with its routine of small duties and usual tasks and trivial acts. An hour is made up of moments; a day is made up of hours; life i...

Listen to episode 848 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Your Thoughts Create Your Life. Edited and adapted from “The Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Thoughts of health, thoughts of joy, thoughts of kindness, bring joy and health to the one who entertains them and sends them forth. If we think ourselves inherently bad, we shall reap the fruits of that t...

Listen to episode 847 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Life of Inspiration, Happiness & Consequence. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : What is it to live? Is it simply to eat, drink, and be merry? Is it to learn a little, here and there; to laugh and play; to sleep, weep, toil, and battle from day to day, and from year to year...

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, rep...

Listen to episode 845 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Keep Young, Energetic & Growing. Edited and adapted from The Road to Seventy Years Young, or The Unhabitual Way by Emily Mulkin Bishop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Remember that our years, rightly lived, should bring a multiplication, not a relinquishment, of interests. Even that which is very familiar contains something new...

Listen to episode 844 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building the Powerful Habit of Positive Thinking. Edited and adapted from “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : To build and maintain desirable qualities of mind, you must begin right now, this minute, to use every constructive faculty you have and to check carelessness in your speech, as well...

Listen to episode 843 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How the Law of Attraction Really Works. Adapted from the book Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There has been a lot of nonsense written and spoken about the Law of Attraction. People have been taught that all they need to do is to adopt a certain mental attitude, think thoughts of success and abundan...

Listen to episode 842 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Law that Guarantees Success | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from the work of Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Anything we ever achieve is accomplished by our knowledge of some kind of law. Health, wealth, happiness, success, prosperity, freedom! Anything you want literally will come to you if you will obey its...