Listen to episode 898 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let us make the most of our one chance, and not spoil it by any folly or cruelty. How pleasant it will be, as we draw near the goal, if we can look back and realize that though the way was very steep and rough for us in some places, and though it traversed at times a landscape that was all devoid of loveliness, yet,...

Listen to episode 897 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Important Thoughts to Contemplate. Edited and adapted from Morning Thoughts for Every Day in the Year by JR Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that we are all both sowers and fields. Our words, our acts, our influence, as we touch other lives, become the seeds. This is true not only of the good things that our lives scatter, but also the bad. Each life of ours is a little patch of ground on which other sowers are forever...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Little Builders by Dorothy Grenside, published in 1916. Podcast Excerpt:Do you understand that you have two separate selves within you — one Self that urges you to do all that you can to bring happiness and joy to others, and another that seems petty and small in its desires, wrapped up in its own pleasures and pains? The self that thinks nobly and purely is your Higher Self, who is a part of..... --------------------- Get...

Listen to episode 896 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character & Happiness | Self-Development Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: If you and I are not changing ourselves constantly, we are not fulfilling the character of our potential. It is a persistent and destructive heresy to say that our characters are fixed by influences outside ourselves. The weak person excuses themselves by saying that this or that...

Listen to episode 895 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Recovering Your Happiness & Joy. Edited and adapted from The Joy that No Man Taketh from You by Lilian Whiting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is true that many troubles are inevitable. They are a component part of life. Death is the universal human experience. Illness is largely so (in slight or serious degree). Misfortunes are, practically, universal, in some form or other. There can be no woman or man who is so great, or so...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from New Thought Common Sense and What Life Means to Me by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1908. Podcast Excerpt: A MOST beautiful calendar opens with the lines: "I'll not easily offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll try to mend, And endure what can't be mended." One could hardly start the day with a better resolution than what is contained in those lines. To not easily offend is to be continually considerate. We...

Listen to episode 894 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Evidence of the Spiritual Life | Uplifting Podcast. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The first question to be faced frankly, and if possible, honestly answered, is this: “Is there a normal spiritual life possible to all people — to be lived not in some distant heaven, but here and now in this present world? And if so, of what does it consist, and how is it to be...

Listen to episode 893 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Start Living the Inspiring Life Meant for You. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It’s been said that character is practically fixed for most people when they reach the age of 25. I suspect this is true — for how many of us rigorously and systematically take ourselves in hand every day, and work on overcoming our imperfections, our weaknesses? Instead, we often...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Culture and Reform by Anna Robertson Brown, published in 1896. Podcast Excerpt: In this world of ours, there is often talk about reform. There are lots of things in need of reform: the government, education, the media, pretty much all of our institutions. But such talk of reform always leads us back to the individual. That is why I say, to carry it through, reform must be adequate to deal with the mysteries and powers of...

Listen to episode 892 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Avoid Certain Failure | 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...

Listen to episode 891 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Real You is Waiting to Come Alive. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The old materialistic idea of the universe, as a machine made up of physical matter, and run simply in accordance with certain physical laws, is gone. We live in a universe alive throughout, surcharged with vital energy, throbbing and pulsating with powers of mind from its very center to its...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The master-key to success, in every realm of human life, is Faith. Faith has inspired every truly great career that has blessed the World. Faith has made possible every great Institution that has enriched the life of humanity. Faith is the scarlet thread running through all the religions of the world, and revealing their essential...

Listen to episode 890 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Living a Successful Life. Edited and adapted from The World Beautiful by Lilian Whiting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success in life is too largely attributed to special gifts or exceptional good fortune, or of some combination of the two, rather than to simple duty and the obligation of all aspiring people. That is to say, it should be held as the normal and not the abnormal condition. To achieve success is not...

Listen to episode 889 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in the Battle of Life. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Half-way, half-hearted doings never amount to much. Battles are not won with flags at half-mast — they are run up to the very top and waved as far toward the heavens as possible. If we lack enthusiasm, we are almost as certain to fail of achieving an end. A listless, lackadaisical spirit may get...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Life in Its Fullness by Charles Thomas Parnell, published in 1922. Podcast Excerpt: We all live, move, and have our being in an ocean of life. It is said that a single person has enough life to heal a nation. Health and longevity are from within. Old age is but a crystallization of habits. Birth is not only a thing of the past. Every day is a birthday. Every moment is one of creation and renewal, unfoldment and development...

Listen to episode 888 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Knowledge to a Higher Plane of Living. Edited and adapted from As Ithers (Others) See Us by John Thomas Huddle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: As a general rule, we are as ignorant of our power as a horse tied to a post is of its strength. Under the influence of passion or fear, the horse snaps the rein like a thread. In its newly- awakened strength it breaks the trappings of man as easily as Samson did the cords of the...

Listen to episode 887 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Multiple Your Mental Power. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No life is really happy until it is helpful, is really successful, until it is radiant with joy and gladness, the gladness of good cheer, of goodwill toward everybody, of the spirit of camaraderie toward all people. Only by giving ourselves can we hold what we have, can we grow....

Listen to episode 886 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Discouragement | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many people throw away their chance in life because of discouragement. But, I hear some of you asking, “Okay, so how can we keep from being discouraged? When the way is hard, when the burdens are heavy, when even our family makes life harder for us, how can we help but being...

Listen to episode 885 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live Up to Your Full Potential. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is a rare thing to find a person who is really masterful in their personality, masterful in what they undertake; who approaches their task with the assurance of a conqueror; who is able to grapple vigorously with their life problems; who always keeps themselves in condition to do their best and...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest S. Holmes, published in 1923. Podcast Excerpt:ALL outer success first takes place within ourselves. Creation is eternally flowing through all things. Reality is always working from that inner pattern. We do not struggle with conditions, we use principles which create conditions. What we can mentally encompass we can accomplish, no matter how hard it may seem from the outside. All external...

Listen to episode 884 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Master Your Fate. Edited and adapted from Mastery of Fate by Christian D. Larson. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: What you are, and what you do, determines in what conditions, circumstances, and environments you shall be placed. And since you can change yourself and your actions, you can determine what your fate is to be. To change yourself, you must change your thought, because you are as you think; and to change your actions,...

Listen to episode 883 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Begin to Make Your Life Interesting | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When you become conscious of your talents, and have begun to develop them, you begin to discover the pleasure of using them. To the person who is mentally active, everything in life is interesting. You derive pleasure from the sight of the countryside, because you can see its wonders,...

Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Man Limitless by Floyd B. Wilson, published in 1905. Podcast Excerpt:Among all people and cultures, you will find that those who are bewailing their fate, or as they put it, the way the world has treated them, feel in their hearts they have not received, and are not receiving, the just rewards for their toil and effort. It seems that many become professional growlers because they compare their work with the work of others...

Listen to episode 882 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Understanding What Success Really Is. Edited and adapted from Successward by Edward W. Bok. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In this age of big things, we are inclined to regard success as synonymous only with the higher walks of life, with great achievements. Success (in the minds of some people) is something which is only given for the fortunate to achieve — while others think that if we cannot do something that sets people talking or...