Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
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Timeless Advice on Living | Inspirational Life Lessons
August 30, 2022 04:26 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBListen to episode 710 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Advice on Living | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Thoughts on Life by Sarah Ball Kitchen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everything has been better said than I can say it. But our manner of saying something may touch some heart to which it has never appealed before. Therefore I offer you the following advice. 1. The force that has placed you here upon earth has meant your life to be of some purpose. See to it that i...
The Charm & Mystery of Life | Inspiring Podcasts
August 25, 2022 10:14 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBListen to episode 709 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Charm & Mystery of Life | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Making a Life by Cortland Myers. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is an involved drama. It is a composition of forces. It is a combination of incidents. There are more semi-colons than full-stops. The judgment should be reserved for integers and not fractions. The process is not the result. The one who jumps to conclusions skips contentment and happiness. ...
The Most Important Element of Success in Life
August 23, 2022 00:30 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBListen to episode 708 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Important Element of Success in Life. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no element so important to a successful business or a successful life as enthusiasm. Yet it is an element often not thoroughly understood, or very accurately measured. It is rarely given the degree of importance to which it is entitled. Indeed, it is often neglected altogeth...
How to Get More Happiness & Prosperity From Your Work
August 18, 2022 09:48 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBListen to episode 707 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get More Happiness & Prosperity From Your Work. Edited and adapted from Stepping Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Efficiency in the business world means doing less work and getting more for it. In life it means conserving energy, avoiding waste, and getting more pleasure, happiness, and prosperity from your efforts. It’s been said that the average person is only fifteen to twenty per ce...
Live a Life Worthy of Immortality | Inspiring Podcasts
August 16, 2022 09:20 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBListen to episode 706 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 the elevation of your character. The person who is satisfied with their first effort, or their first step,...
Life's Magic Formula & The Secrets of Success
August 11, 2022 08:56 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBListen to episode 705 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life's Magic Formula & The Secrets of Success. Edited and adapted from Four Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many people have philosophies of life, ideas on the subject of happiness, and dreams of success that are ludicrous and unfounded. I have met millionaires, successful business people, learned professors, gifted artists, and able preachers who have not the slightest notion of how to be happy. --...
How to Face Life & Middle Age
August 09, 2022 10:36 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBListen to episode 704 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Face Life & Middle Age. Edited and adapted from How to Face Life by Stephen Samuel Wise. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If youth initiates, middle age achieves most and best serves. It best achieves because it is a time of fullness of intellectual strength and firmness of moral will. And it best serves because the excesses of self have been (or ought to have been) burnt out — leaving the capacity of selfless endeavors unrelat...
Words are Wonderful Things | Our Sunday Talks
August 07, 2022 06:57 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBListen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. 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 over 600 Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://li...
The Keystone of Life | Success Podcasts
August 04, 2022 10:29 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBListen to episode 703 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keystone of Life | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Of the equipment necessary for life’s journey, the pinnacle is character. After all is said and done, our fate is supported entirely by the type of character we possess or develop. Character is the keystone of life. If you have it, you don’t need to have much of anyt...
Building an Attractive & Charming Personality
August 02, 2022 08:29 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBListen to episode 702 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building an Attractive and Charming Personality. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The study of personality is extremely valuable, whether in the business, social, or political world — for it helps us to correct our own shortcomings, and to make our journey of life with others much easier. It also helps us to select our associates, and to k...
Success Requirements in Work & Life (Part 2)
July 28, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBListen to episode 701 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Requirements in Work & Life. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Imagination is important to success. But it is not the only thing required. You also need initiative, for while imagination thinks things, initiative does things. Initiative is doing what should be done without being told to do it. There is a proverb that says opportunit...
Success Requirement in Work & Life (Part 2)
July 28, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBListen to episode 701 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Requirements in Work & Life. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Imagination is important to success. But it is not the only thing required. You also need initiative, for while imagination thinks things, initiative does things. Initiative is doing what should be done without being told to do it. There is a proverb that says opportunit...
Success Requirements in Work & Life (Part 1)
July 26, 2022 04:39 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBListen to episode 700 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Requirements in Work & Life. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What Is Success? A complete definition of success, satisfactory to all people, has perhaps never been found. Each person has their own idea of what success means to them, and this idea keeps changing with the passing of time. To some people, success means fame; to some i...
The Most Important Thing to Understand
July 21, 2022 09:07 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBListen to episode 699 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Important Thing to Understand. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A passport is a permit — one that allows us to enter places from which we might otherwise be barred. In our daily life, it opens the gates to success and desired social contacts. The journey of life requires certain passports, and a certain amount of luggage. The exper...
Navigating a Successful Journey of Life
July 19, 2022 08:42 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBListen to episode 698 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Navigating a Successful Journey of Life. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock. Visit today's sponsor Shopify at Shopify.com/inspirational for a free fourteen-day trial, and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a journey, which all of us make but once. There is no round-trip ticket. This journey (according to present-d...
Personal Power & Growth (Audiobook) | Keith J. Thomas
July 17, 2022 02:12 - 1 hour - 101 MBWelcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. In response to listeners who have asked for longer readings, I am putting together new audiobook and “best of” collections, featuring books and authors that have appeared on this podcast. These collections will also include readings from our archive, which are no longer publicly available. The first collection is today’s audiobook, which includes 9 readings from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas (1917). I have blended the readings together, and r...
Common Causes of Failure | Napoleon Hill
July 14, 2022 10:32 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBListen to episode 697 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Common Causes of Failure | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try and fail. The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed. I have had the privilege of analyzing several thousand men and women, 98% of whom were classed as "failures." ...
The Qualities of Great Leaders | Leadership Podcasts
July 12, 2022 08:35 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBListen to episode 696 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Meditation: The Qualities of Great Leaders | Leadership Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Broadly speaking, there are two types of people in the world. One type is known as a leader and the other are followers. Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader in your chosen calling, or remain a follower. It is no disgrace to be a follower. On the other...
Your Special Place in the World | Our Sunday Talks
July 10, 2022 10:09 - 5 minutes - 5.33 MBListen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. 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 over 600 Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://li...
Meditation: The Gateway to Power
July 07, 2022 09:19 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBListen to episode 695 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Meditation: The Gateway to Power. Edited and adapted from A New Heaven and a New Earth by Charles Brodie Patterson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Meditation is the gateway to power. Through this gateway we enter into consciousness of a new life. The highest form of meditation is a conscious oneness with the source of all life. It is not a state of mental activity, but rather a cessation of thought, and an entering into a new world ...
The Power of Imagination + An Idea | Napoleon Hill
July 05, 2022 09:19 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBListen to episode 694 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Imagination + An Idea. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our new monthly patron Guy Ellis. Learn how you can become our patron, and get ad-free podcasts, full transcripts, and more, for as little as $3 a month, by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. The imagination is literally the works...
Build Yourself a Beautiful Character
June 30, 2022 03:24 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBListen to episode 693 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Build Yourself a Beautiful Character. Edited and Adapted from A Life of Character by J.R. Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The building of character is the most important business of life. It matters little what works you may leave in the world; your real success, is measured by what you have formed along the years in your own being. It is a great thing for us to have a lofty thought of life, and ever to seek to reach it. Sai...
Making the Most of Your Talents & Life
June 28, 2022 04:12 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBListen to episode 692 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most of Your Talents & Life. Edited and Adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every individual has been created with one or more talents; that is, natural gifts, which, if put to use and properly directed, will enable them to produce results. It is thus your duty to discover what natural gifts or talents you possess, and to begin to map out definite plans for an active and progr...
The Ideal Made Real | Transformational Mindset
June 23, 2022 06:31 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBIf you missed my Success Mindset webinar with Blisspot on June 15th, you can watch a recorded replay at: LivingHour.org/webinar Due to temporary laryngitis brought on by Covid 19, today's episode is the rebroadcast of a reading from 2016. I should be able to resume new readings next week. Listen to episode 691 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Ideal Made Real | Transformational Mindset. Edited and Adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerp...
Timeless Thoughts About Life | Kahlil Gibran Quotes
June 21, 2022 04:32 - 10 minutes - 9.9 MBI have temporarily lost my voice due to Covid-19, so today's podcast is the rebroadcast of an early reading from 2016. Listen to episode 690 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Thoughts About Life. Edited and Adapted from the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “No, sorrow is the greater.” But I say to you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at the ...
The Greatest Lesson I've Learned | Swami Vivekananda
June 16, 2022 09:48 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBListen to episode 689 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Greatest Lesson I’ve Learned. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda. Visit today's sponsor Shopify at Shopify.com/inspirational for a free fourteen-day trial, and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest monthly patrons: Afya Gabriel, Miss Kira, and Manuel. By becoming patrons (https://liv...
Mastering Discouragement & Anger | Self-Help Podcasts
June 14, 2022 04:39 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBListen to episode 688 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering Discouragement & Anger. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Wilmot Henry Wheeler. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I’d like to start today with a special announcement. Tomorrow (Wednesday the 15th) I am going to be conducting a Success Mindset Masterclass with Blisspot. Registration for the online webinar is free. To join, please visit LivingHour.org/masterclass. Than...
Success Habits for a Successful Life
June 09, 2022 07:33 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBListen to episode 687 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Habits for a Successful Life. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Frank Everit Mitchell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are at least three kinds of people in the world: 1) those who do not know how to succeed, and do not think it worth their trouble to learn; 2) those who know how but fail because they do not live up to their knowledge; and 3) those who do succeed, because they practice the principles whic...
Reaching Your Utopia | Motivational Podcasts
June 07, 2022 08:08 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBListen to episode 686 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Reaching Your Utopia | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Frank Everit Mitchell. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: True success is not the result of luck, guess, or chance. It is the ripened fruit of persistent industry wedded to intelligent conception. And the reason why so few of those who try succeed is not that they set the standard too high, or that they have not the ability to reach it, but bec...
The 9 Qualities of Love | Our Sunday Talks
June 05, 2022 06:06 - 6 minutes - 6.13 MBListen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. 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 over 600 Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://li...
Make a Decision Today | Success Podcasts
June 02, 2022 09:15 - 12 minutes - 11 MBListen to episode 685 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make a Decision Today | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is one habit which you should cultivate, not only for its usefulness in general, but especially for its value in developing true decision of character. That is, the habit of doing everything that should be done, precisely at the time when it ought to be done. Everyt...
Motivation for the Courageous Life
May 31, 2022 07:29 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBListen to episode 684 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for the Courageous Life. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The world owes much to its women and men and of courage. I do not mean physical courage, but the courage that displays itself in silent effort and endeavor — that dares to endure all, and suffer all, for truth and duty. Such courage is more truly heroic than the achievements of ...
Why Forgiveness Benefits You Most | Happiness Podcasts
May 26, 2022 04:10 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBListen to episode 683 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Why Forgiveness Benefits You Most. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I would like to talk about forgiveness. There are people who say they have forgiven, but they have not forgotten. This really means that their forgiveness is incomplete; something is wanting in it; it is defective; it is not free and generous; it is lame and weak. In so f...
Mastering the Art of Self-Control | Life Lessons
May 24, 2022 08:34 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBListen to episode 682 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering the Art of Self-Control. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A strong temper is not necessarily a bad temper. But the stronger the temper, the greater the need for self-discipline and self- control. It is not our faults that ruin us, so much as the manner in which we conduct ourselves after the faults have been committed. The wise person ...
Turn Your Trials Into Blessings | Inspirational Podcasts
May 19, 2022 11:21 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBListen to episode 681 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Turn Your Trials Into Blessings. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Transcript: You may go to school all your life and yet be a dunce. Your head may be a library stuffed with book knowledge, yet you may not know enough to hoe a hill of beans. You may lack that practical wisdom which make a success of life. You may have talents bright as the sun, yet be dep...
Turn Hard Times Into Blessings | Inspirational Podcasts
May 19, 2022 11:21 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBListen to episode 681 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Turning Hard Times Into Blessings. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Transcript: You may go to school all your life and yet be a dunce. Your head may be a library stuffed with book knowledge, yet you may not know enough to hoe a hill of beans. You may lack that practical wisdom which make a success of life. You may have talents bright as the sun, yet be d...
Make Your Life a Beacon of Light | Inspiring Podcasts
May 17, 2022 10:42 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBListen to episode 680 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make Your Life a Beacon of Light. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Visit today's sponsor Shopify at Shopify.com/inspirational for a free fourteen-day trial, and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A character that is sound, that rings as the perfect bell does, is the character you must have if you would make the most of life....
The Path of Cheerfulness | Happiness Podcasts
May 12, 2022 10:25 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBListen to episode 679 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Path of Cheerfulness | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The influence that a cheerful person has on others is almost limitless. You probably have known people within whose company you felt uplifted, amiable and hopeful, equal to anything! I do not know a more enviable gift than the energy to sway others to good; to diffus...
The Ultimate Aim of Life | Uplifting Podcasts
May 10, 2022 09:29 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBListen to episode 678 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Ultimate Aim of Life | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Fundamentals of Success by Hiram Abiff Boaz. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every person ought to have some definite goal, a specific purpose worthy of their best effort — for without this object in view, you cannot accomplish anything worthwhile, nor can your life reach its highest efficiency and significance. There may be many secondary objects in view, some ...
The Golden Key to Prayer | Emmet Fox | Sunday Talks
May 08, 2022 07:20 - 5 minutes - 5.33 MBListen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. 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 over 600 Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://li...
Avoid These Failure Traps | Success Podcasts
May 03, 2022 08:40 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBListen to episode 677 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Avoid These Failure Traps | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Fundamentals of Success by Hiram Abiff Boaz. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No normal person wants to fail. Failure takes the sparkle from the eye, the color from the cheek, the edge from the intellect, and the nerve from the arm. The sense of failure depresses and dejects. It takes the sunshine out of life and brings the shadow. It takes joy from the heart, and s...
Mastering the Game of Life | Motivational Podcasts
April 28, 2022 08:21 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBListen to episode 676 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering the Game of Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from C’mon Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Some people have called life a voyage, where we steer for a certain port. Some say it is a climb from the valleys of labor to some great mountain peak of rest. Others call it a journey down a sunlit road that now and then has a shadow. I do not disagree with any of this, but I call life ...
Building the Habit of Right Thinking | Positive Affirmations
April 26, 2022 09:01 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBListen to episode 675 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building the Habit of Right Thinking | Positive Affirmations. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Wrong thought is the root of all evil. Right thought is the cause of all good. The art of right thinking, therefore, becomes one of the highest arts in existence, and its attainment one of the noblest aims of the human soul. To think right is to think the truth. Therefore, the ...
The Infinite Source of Health & Success
April 21, 2022 06:55 - 11 minutes - 11 MBListen to episode 674 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Infinite Source of Health & Success. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our new monthly patron Gwendi Raia. Gwendi now has access to our entire archive of over 650 podcasts, with full transcripts and ad free. To learn how you can get these same benefits, visit livinghour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s ...
Find and Use Your Inner Power | Inspirational Podcasts
April 19, 2022 08:14 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBListen to episode 673 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Find and Use Your Inner Power. Edited and adapted from Find and Use Your Inner Power by Emmet Fox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You think, and your thoughts materialize as experience, and thus it is, that you are weaving the pattern of your own destiny, here and now, by the way in which you allow yourself to think, day by day and all day long. It is altogether in your own hands. Nobody but yourself can keep you down. Nobody else c...
Driving Fear From Your Life | Motivational Podcasts
April 14, 2022 05:06 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBListen to episode 672 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Driving Fear From Your Life. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everywhere we see the terrible havoc that fear has wrought in human lives. The premature wrinkles, the gray hair, the stooping shoulders, the anxious faces we see on all sides, are the manifestation of foreboding fear thoughts. We are like a haunted animal from the cradle to the grave, the victim of ...
Driving Fear From Your Life | Orison Swett Marden
April 14, 2022 05:06 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBListen to episode 672 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Driving Fear From Your Life. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everywhere we see the terrible havoc that fear has wrought in human lives. The premature wrinkles, the gray hair, the stooping shoulders, the anxious faces we see on all sides, are the manifestation of foreboding fear thoughts. We are like a haunted animal from the cradle to the grave, the victim of r...
Never Be Discouraged | You Will Overcome
April 12, 2022 08:34 - 9 minutes - 9.09 MBListen to episode 671 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Never Be Discouraged | You Will Overcome. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are not apt to think of discouragement as either dangerous or harmful. Some people seem to think it a rather a pleasant experience — at least, they appear to find a sort of relief and satisfaction in dropping down now and then into a dispirited mood. They thus make no effort to overcome thei...
Put Beauty Into Your Life | Our Sunday Talks
April 10, 2022 08:26 - 6 minutes - 5.68 MBListen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. 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 over 600 Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://li...
Doing the Things Worthwhile | Inspiring Podcasts
April 07, 2022 04:24 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBListen to episode 670 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Doing the Things Worthwhile. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Whatever adds in even the smallest way to the world's brightness and cheer is worthwhile. The person who plants a flower in a bare place, where only bleakness was before, is a benefactor. The person who says an encouraging word to a disheartened neighbor, gives a look of love to a lonely one, or speaks a se...