Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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The Supreme Value of Skeptics & Free Thinkers Jul 22, 2025

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Listen to episode 1027 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Supreme Value of Skeptics & Free Thinkers. Edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The word "skeptic" is from the Greek. Its root meaning is "one who is looking for the truth," "who is thoughtful," "who considers," "an inquirer after facts." Yet we are often warned against falling prey to "skepticism," just as long ago the skeptic was viewed as a criminal because they would persist in declining to accept as truth, without inquiry, what the public considered facts, embodied in religious dogmas — which today have been replaced by social dogmas.

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How to Develop Your Memory to Achieve Success Jul 17, 2025

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Listen to episode 1026 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Develop Your Memory to Achieve Success. Edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W. R. C. LATSON.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE value of any person to themselves and to the world at large depends in great degree upon their memory — upon your ability to recall and to use at any desired moment the recollection of what you have seen, heard, experienced, or thought. Memory is really the stock in trade of our mental life. Our perceptions bring to us a vast mass of experiences — things that we have seen, heard, touched, tasted, and smelled — our thoughts and experiences. But these things are valuable only when they are held in the memory. For, unless they are remembered they cannot be used.

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Albert Einstein: Inspirational Wisdom & Quotes Jul 15, 2025

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Listen to episode 1025 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Albert Einstein: Inspirational Wisdom and Quotes. Edited and adapted from the writings of Albert Einstein.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

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Our Duty to Be Happy | Happiness Podcasts Jul 10, 2025

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Listen to episode 1024 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Our Duty to Be Happy. Edited and adapted from the book Happiness by Hugh Black, published in 1911.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.

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How to Turn Bad News Into Good Jul 08, 2025

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Listen to episode 1023 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life Hacks: Turning Bad News Into Good. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Bad news is what seems to upset us most in our efforts to live a triumphant life. We try to fulfill the conditions of what we think is our destiny, and then we begin to look forward to receiving the fruits of our labors. When the particular thing we hope for does not materialize at the particular time we hope to get it, we get disappointed and disheartened, rebellious or frightened, and in a panic we turn away from our faith and grasp at doubt — as if doubt were a refuge when faith fails!

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Rewire Your Brain for Optimism and Success Jul 04, 2025

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Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Rewire Your Brain for Optimism and Success. Adapted from the book Success is For You by Dorothy Quigley.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Try to see how the laws of nature work and be an optimist. Be a liberal, tolerant one. The jokester says, “A pessimist is one who has met an optimist.” That's a fine hint not to make your optimism too ill-advised, too belligerent. You will hear the unreflecting say, “The optimist is a fool. The pessimist understands life; gets below the surface of things; hears the ceaseless murmur of woe through all the immemorial years.” Sing back to them: “No, the optimist is the wise person. The pessimist is the fool.”

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Overcoming Your Pain & Sorrow | Uplifting Podcasts Jul 01, 2025

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Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Pain & Sorrow. Edited & adapted from The Path to Prosperity by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Is there no way of escape from pain and sorrow? Are there no means by which bonds of evil may be broken? Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity, and abiding peace a foolish dream?

No, there is a way, and I speak it with gladness, by which evil can be slain forever; there is a process by which disease, poverty, or any adverse condition or circumstance can be overcome; there is a method by which a permanent prosperity can be secured, free from all fear of the return of adversity, and there is a practice by which unbroken and unending peace and bliss can be partaken of and realized.

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The World as Looking Glass | Thought-Provoking Podcasts Jun 26, 2025

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Listen to episode 1020 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World as Looking Glass. Edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and Other Essays by Joseph Frank Thompson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is full of looking-glasses in which we behold our own reflection. Any given mirror may be cracked or otherwise defective (so that the image fails to do us justice), but, more or less, the thing reflected is the thing that is.

The material world abounds in such mirrors....

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The Success Habits of Money & Time Jun 24, 2025

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Listen to episode 1019 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Success Habits of Money & Time. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The vast majority of people who have risen from obscurity to power, and from power to affluence, have done so by careful and systematic improvement of the spare moments of their lives. "Time is money," it is said. But this very inadequately expresses the truth. Time is infinitely more than money. Time is, when improved: education, knowledge, enjoyment, skill, talent, and character.

The way you spend your spare hours shows the world what you are.

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The Million Dollar Lecture, Pt. 3 | Success Podcast Jun 19, 2025

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Listen to episode 1018 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 3 | Success Habits & Incentives. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When it comes to building good habits, don’t overlook the habit of success. Yes, there is such a thing. Make it a customary habit to surmount difficulties, even in little things. Perhaps the winning, in itself, will not be worth the effort, but in the strengthening of the habit, its value is immeasurable.

The world has a place for the women and men who finish that which they undertake. I wish that I could burn that point into your minds so that it would always be before you.

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