Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1085 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Why We Misunderstand Ourselves (and Each Other). Edited and adapted from Ourselves and Others by H. Clay Trumbull. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : We do not fully understand ourselves. We do not fully understand others. We think that others do not understand themselves. We are sure that others do not understand us. It seems to us that if...

Listen to episode 1084 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Kindness. Edited and adapted from “The Secret of Success; or, Finger Posts on the Highway of Life,” by John Dale. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : ONE of the great needs of the world is more kindness — the pure, natural, unaffected kindness of the heart. There are multitudes of people who are surrounded by all the comforts tha...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Gift of the Spirit by Prentice Mulford, published in 1913. 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...

Listen to episode 1083 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Make the Most of Your Time. Edited and adapted from Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : “I HAVE no time,” that is not only the most familiar and convenient excuse for not doing something; it is also, one must confess, the excuse which has in it the greatest appearance of truth. Is it a good...

Listen to episode 1082 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Conquering Melancholy on New Year’s Eve. Edited and Adapted from an essay by Charles Lamb. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Everyone has two birthdays: two days, at least, in every year, which set us upon reflecting on the lapse of time as it affects our mortal duration. As we grow older, the custom of honoring our proper birthday often pa...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909. 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...

Listen to episode 1081 of the Inspirational Living podcast: An Inspirational Christmas Sermon. Edited and adapted from All These Things Added by James Allen, published in 1903. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : THE mountain bends not to the fiercest storm, but it shields the fledgling and the lamb; and though all people tread upon it, yet it protects them, and bears them up upon its sturdy bosom. So...

Listen to episode 1080 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Keys to Friendship & Character. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There are many turning-points when the question of success or failure is decided again and again. Life is a campaign, in which a series of fortresses are to be taken; all previous victories and advanc...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Creed of The Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney. 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:/...

Listen to episode 1079 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living in Joy & Without Regrets. Edited and adapted from Thoughts are Things by Prentice Mulford. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : THE tendency of many people after they are a little "advanced in years" is to look backward with regret. The "looking" should be the other way — forward. If you want to go backward in every...

Listen to episode 1078 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Greatness that Comes from Within. Edited and adapted from The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brodie Patterson. Podcast Excerpt : Our work tells the story of our inner life. If it is the work of a Michael Angelo, a Leonardo da Vinci, a Beethoven, or a Wagner, then such work must be a true expression of that person’s highest self. There is n...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922. 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 g...

Listen to episode 1077 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Create a New, Spiritual Consciousness. Adapted from the book The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brodie Patterson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is a state of consciousness. The visible world is a mirror of what humanity has felt and thought and done; but it is not a prophecy of what you shall be, for what you shall be is written...

Listen to episode 1076 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Simple Life by Charles Wagner, published in 1901. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : DO you find life enjoyable these days? For my part, on the whole, it seems rather depressing, and I fear that my opinion is not altogether personal. As I observe the lives of my contemporaries, and listen to...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks,edited and adapted from Little Builders by Dorothy Grenside, published in 1916. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : I want you to understand that I really mean it when I say that God is everywhere and within you. He is not tucked away in some great far-off Heaven, so that you wonder if your prayers can climb so high. He is not living only in a church, to...

Listen to episode 1075 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons for a Happy Life. Adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Before you get up, clean out of your mind every feeling of your Rights, and see what kind of a day you will have. Don't try for more than one day, at first, for it will tax your forces. Old habits of...

Listen to episode 1074 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Being a Gentleman. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Every man should desire above all else to be regarded as a gentleman. There once was a time when the greatest offense you could levy on man was to call him not a gentleman. But today we struggle to even und...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks,edited and adapted from Little Builders by Dorothy Grenside, published in 1916. Podcast Manuscript : Some people think it strange when I talk about the Joy of Work. They’ve begun to look on work as wearisome and dull, as something to be hurried over, so that they can get back to their games, TV, and relaxation. So, I feel compelled to keep repeating t...

Listen to episode 1073 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Psychology of Love & Marriage. Adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The most vital application of psychology is in the study of the supreme passion of life called Love, because it takes hold essentially of the feeling element of consciousness. Nothing so tones up the body, illumina...

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 o...

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. L...

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 b...

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 embod...

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...

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...