Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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The Power of Kindness | Uplifting Podcasts Jan 06, 2026

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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 that wealth can bestow, and yet they carry with them hearts empty and starving for the simple kindnesses of life — persons who would gladly exchange their pretentious grandeur for poverty and its grim bareness, if it could be cheered by the sunshine and kindness of love.

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How to Use Your Spiritual Gifts | Our Sunday Talks Jan 04, 2026

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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.

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Podcast Manuscript: There is one spirit, one power, one force in the universe. But its different manifestations or channels of operation are countless. It moves the breeze, the ocean, the avalanche, and the earth in its orbit. It moves the seed to grow, the plant to blossom, the flower to color itself with inimitable hues. It colors the bird's plumage and gives power to its wing. Its highest known expression is in humanity, because in us this force is most concentrated.

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How to Make the Most of Your Time Jan 01, 2026

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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 excuse? I must admit that within certain limits the excuse is reasonable. But I shall try to show how it is that this lack of time occurs, and how one may, at least in some degree, find the time you need.

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How to Conquer Melancholy on New Year's Eve Dec 30, 2025

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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 passes away and is left to children, who reflect nothing at all about the matter, nor understand anything in it beyond cake and toys.

But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be ignored. No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common humanity.

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An Inspirational Christmas Story Dec 28, 2025

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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.

Podcast Manuscript: The world’s attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, the greatest birthday since time began. Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because (quote) —“there was no room for them in the inn.”

For worldly success, fame, social prestige, laurel-crowned triumph, the inn is illuminated; welcoming music fills the air; and the inn doors are thrown wide open. But the struggle towards sublime attainment, heroic effort to better the world, simple consecration of soul to a noble ideal, means the manger — and a lonely pathway lit only by the torch of truth held high in the hand of purpose.

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An Inspirational Christmas Sermon Dec 25, 2025

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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 it is also with the meek among us, who compassionately bend to shield the lowliest creature, and, though they may be despised, lift all others up and lovingly protect them.

As glorious as the mountain in its silence are the divine man and woman in their silent Meekness; like the mountainous form, their loving embrace is expansive and sublime. Truly their body, like the mountain’s base, is fixed in the valleys and the mists; but the summit of their being is eternally bathed in cloudless glory, and lives with the majestic Silence.

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Keys to Friendship & Character | Success Podcasts Dec 23, 2025

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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 advances may be thrown away by failure in the next. Nearly the last of these is companionship; if one wins the victory here, the reward of a prosperous life of character is within his reach.

At the risk of logically inverting my subject, I will speak first of friendship; and I must beg your patience while I put a foundation under my suggestions. If there were but one general truth that I could lodge in the mind of anyone or all men and women, it would be this: that true life consists in the fulfillment of relations. We are born into relations; we never get out of them; all duty consists in meeting them. The family, the community, the humanity at large — these are the sources of our primary and abiding duties, as well as of our happiness — the sum-total of ethics and spirituality.

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Your New Life Begins Today! | Uplifting Podcasts Dec 21, 2025

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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.

Podcast Manuscript: “At sunrise every soul is born anew.” So rise today to a new consciousness of your new life. Let your soul unfold its wings and rise to grander and better things. Give up all unpleasant memories of the past. Yield to the past its own. Give to it all the beliefs in limitation that you have entertained about yourself or others. To the past give all your old thoughts of doubt, hate, fear, and disease. Cast from your mind all thought of age and death.

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Living in Joy & Without Regrets | Happiness Podcasts Dec 18, 2025

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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 sense (mental and physical), keep on cultivating the mood of living regretfully in your past life.

It is one chief characteristic of the material mind to hold tenaciously to the past. It likes to recall the past and mourn over it. The material mind has a never-ending series of solemn amusement in recalling past joys, and feeling sad because they are never to come again.

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The Greatness that Comes from Within Dec 16, 2025

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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 no way for you to attain lasting greatness save through the development of your own innate powers and possibilities.

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