Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1098 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Understanding the Art of Persuasion. Edited and adapted from the Psychology of Persuasion by William Macpherson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The starting-point of all persuasion, of ourselves or others, is a belief or wish. Holding a certain belief (or desiring that a certain course of action shall be pursued) we set out to justify our belief and the conduct that it implies. Thus, before a professional speaker begins a speech, he or she (whose aim is persuasion) has already present in their mind a belief or wish, fully formed, from which all their arguments and appeals flow. 

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1911. 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: "What is the best education?" someone asked Plato many centuries ago. "It is," he replied, "that which gives to the body and soul all the beauty and perfection of which they are capable."

The life that would be complete; that would be sweet and sane, as well as strong, must be decorated, softened, and enriched by a love of the beautiful.

There is a lack in the make-up of a person who has no appreciation of beauty, who does not thrill before a great picture, or an entrancing sunset, or a glimpse of beauty in nature.

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Listen to episode 1097 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Understanding Success & How to Achieve It. Edited and adapted from “The Power of Concentration” by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are elements of genius in every man and woman that if awakened and trained will enable them to do something worthwhile. There are stores of energy and ambition in every brain that if unlocked and given expression in action will supply the force necessary to bring things to pass. 

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Listen to episode 1096 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Successful at Selling Anything. Adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We each have in ourselves the potential elements of genius. Our business is to find out how to set them free and get them into effective operation. Remember that a one-talent person working at their highest efficiency is worth a hundred undeveloped ten-talent people. While we all may differ in the degree and variety of natural endowments, everyone has the potential elements of success. 

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice, published in 1942. 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: Even as the stone of the fruit must break so that the seed may stand in the sun, so we must know pain. But pain is not, like joy, an end in itself. It is often the result of mistakes (conscious or unconscious), and carries with it self-condemnation, regret, and remorse.

When a pain is necessary for some desired end, we can bear it with a degree of resignation. But the futile pain that deprives us of usefulness, breaks our spirit, and renders us a burden to others, is hard to bear. Few of us can rise to the heights of St. Paul and glory in our infirmities.

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Listen to episode 1095 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Life of Self-Confidence. Edited and adapted from “You Can. But Will You?” by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Do you know that you will never accomplish anything great unless you not only hold the conviction that victory is your birthright, but also show evidence of it in your face, in your manner and bearing? No person can expect to be a conqueror while they carry the confession of defeat in their face. You must not only feel like a winner, but you must also appear and act like one. You must show victory in your very expression. 

It is not difficult to pick out a successful person among a multitude. If you are a leader, a person who relies upon yourself, every step, every movement, will indicate it. You are covered all over with telltale signs. There is assurance, confidence in your face and bearing. You walk like a master and talk like one. Everyone knows that you believe in yourself and in your mission. 

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Listen to episode 1094 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiration for Lovers | Valentine’s Day Podcasts. Adapted from the book “Hints for Lovers” by Arnold Haultain.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE beginning, the middle, and the end of love — is a sigh. All things point to the infinite; and love more than all things else. 

Complex as is the character of love, there are two things which love always does: always it ..."Refines the thoughts and enlarges the heart." 

Nothing stands still in this world, not even love: it must grow or it withers. And, perhaps, the strongest love is that which surmounts the greatest number of obstacles. 

Love to some is an intoxicant; to others an ailment. To all it is a necessity. 

As is one's character, so is one's love. Perhaps the deepest love is the quietest.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Levels of Living (Essays on Everyday Ideals) by Henry Frederick Cope, published in 1908. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: Every force in the world works with the woman and man who seeks the good. This is a good world, and only those who fight against the good, face the unconquerable. Yes, we may meet rebuffs, the tides of battle may sweep back and forth, but in the end, we are bound to win. This is as true in the individual life of every fighter, as nature and history show it to be in universal life. 

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Listen to episode 1093 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Timeless Wisdom of William Blake. Adapted from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake.

Podcast Transcript: As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius (which to Angels look like torment and insanity), I collected some of their Proverbs: thinking that as the sayings used in a nation, mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell, show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.

How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,

Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Listen to episode 1092 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Being a Great Leader. Edited & adapted from “Getting On” by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The leaders of the world (be it in business, science, or the arts) have ever been precedent breakers. Timid people, no matter how able, never make leaders. Fearlessness and originality are characteristic of all leaders of progress. They have no reverence for the old simply because it is old; with them it is always a question of pushing forward, of improving on the past, instead of slavishly copying it. 

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