Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Your Thoughts Build Your Destiny May 05, 2026

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Listen to episode 1118 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Thoughts Build Your Destiny. Edited & adapted from the book As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is your kaleidoscope. The varying color combinations are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. You are literally what you think, your character being the complete sum of all your thoughts.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every action springs from the hidden seeds of thought and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called "spontaneous" and "unpremeditated" as it does to those which are deliberately executed.

The beautiful truth is that you are the master of your thoughts, the molder of your character, and the maker of your condition, environment, and destiny.

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Start Living for Something | Our Sunday Talks May 03, 2026

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from How to Be Happy by Grace Gold, published in 1893. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Never wait for a chance to do good. Never seek for some great thing, but improve each small opportunity as it comes to you, and some day you will be surprised to find that the truly great occasion of your life would have been overlooked had you not been keeping track of the small things. Or to put it another way, the person who overlooks a small opportunity will have lost their eyesight when a great one comes.

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Become Alive! Inspirational Life Lessons Apr 30, 2026

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Listen to episode 1117 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Being Alive. Edited & adapted from the book The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Stop wondering why you were born into this world. Stop looking for faults and flaws. Rise up today with joy and say, “I am going to be alive!" In every thousand people who are living on this earth, not more than one is alive.

To be really alive means more than to be a moving, breathing, eating, drinking, and talking human being. Those who are actually alive find the days too short to pursue all the wonderful explorations which life offers them. They find life itself a continual adventure, an unfolding panorama, with opportunities for pleasure and achievement at every turn.

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The Majesty of Calmness | Inspirational Podcasts Apr 28, 2026

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Listen to episode 1116 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Majesty of Calmness. Adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the signpost of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of the life self-reliant and the self- controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power — ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis.

No person lives their life more fully, more intensely and more consciously than the one who is calm. Fatalists are not calm, but coward slaves of their environment, hopelessly surrendering to their present condition, recklessly indifferent to the future.

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Becoming Helpful & Useful to Others Apr 26, 2026

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Making the Most of Life by J. R. Miller, published in 1891. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: According to scripture, we can make the most of our life by losing it. Jesus says that in losing our life we are saving it. There is a lower self that must be trampled down and trampled to death by the higher self. The alabaster vase must be broken, so that the ointment may flow out to fill the house. The grapes must be crushed so that there is wine to drink. The wheat must be bruised before it can become bread to feed the hungry.

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The Intelligent Union of Body & Mind Apr 23, 2026

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Listen to episode 1115 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Intelligent Union of Body and Mind. Edited & adapted from the book How to Get What You Want by Dr. Orison Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Modern science has proved that intelligence is not confined to the brain cells, but that we think as a whole, that all cell life takes part in the thinking process. Scientists tell us that the individual cells in a piece of flesh and placed near a drug that is harmful to cell life will draw away as far as they can from this harmful substance.

On the other hand, when a substance friendly to cell life is placed near, the cells will draw as close as possible to this friendly substance and apparently try to absorb it. In other words, these cells manifest the power of intelligent selection, or choice.

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Your Politeness Uplifts Others Apr 21, 2026

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Listen to episode 1114 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Hints on Common Politeness. Edited & adapted from a book by the same title by D.C. Colesworthy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We have fallen on singular times. Who has any true regard for the rights of their neighbor? Where can a really polite person be found? If we do not actually spit in the faces of our friends, we are, every day of our lives, guilty of numberless thoughtless and uncivil acts that greatly displease and annoy them.

Your own pleasure, convenience, and interest should not be taken into consideration when they conflict with the duties you owe your neighbors and society at large. It is a glorious privilege to sacrifice our own selfish interests, if thereby we can promote the well-being of others, and scatter widely and profusely the blessings of life.

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How to Always Be Rich | Our Sunday Talks Apr 19, 2026

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are compensations for everything. Those who have never sorrowed cannot experience the full delights of happiness. A life of continuous pleasure would be hideously monotonous. We would not appreciate our friends, if we did not find them sympathetic and helpful when our dark days came. The very essence of love and friendship is the sharing of sorrows as well as joys. We would never realize the worth of money or the value of success if money and success were easy to come by.

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Overcoming Despite Our Handicaps | Motivational Podcasts Apr 16, 2026

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Listen to episode 1113 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Despite Our Handicaps. Adapted from the book “A Cheerful Philosophy for Thoughtful Invalids” by William Horatio Clarke.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that our journey through life is much like that of a journey across the Atlantic. While we are on the ship, we place our lives in the care of the captain, in the expectation of arriving safely on the other side. We have absolute confidence that our captain understand the nature of the winds, the various currents, and the tides, the shoals and rocks, and how to pilot the vessel through the most violent storms.

We have faith that he knows the strength of the ship, the reliability of the machinery, and that the rudder will obey the wheel. We have no doubt of his caution in running through banks of fog, or in steering clear of icebergs, nor of his skill in avoiding collisions. When darkness settles down over the face of the deep mysterious waters, we retire ourselves to our cabins, and sleep without fear.

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Seeing Life as an Artist Apr 14, 2026

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Listen to episode 1112 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Seeing Life as an Artist. Adapted from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Art is creative. The artist is a co-worker with the Divine. To our hands is committed the portion of the world which the universe has left unfinished — the immediate environment of humankind. We cannot live in the fields and woods like the insects and animals do. Art has for its purpose to make the rooms and houses and halls and streets and cities in which civilized people pass their days as beautiful and fair, as elevating and inspiring, as the fields and forests in which nature blooms.

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