Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from from a popular essay that appeared many times in newspapers during the early 1900s. The author is unknown. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Manuscript: I believe in the cheery whistle of the bobwhite. I believe in smiles, even though the heart is heavy; in lending a hand; in stopping in the shade of a tree on the road of life; to chat a while with some neighbors; in saying kind things before it is too late; in keeping my eyes on the stars though I walk in the mud.

I believe that nothing can hurt me save only as I allow it; that each failure brings me nearer the ultimate success; that should I ever reach the topmost rung of the ladder, I should make way for others, stooping to help them up beside me.

Listen to episode 1071 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Mystery of the Great Writer. Edited and adapted from “Campfires & Guideposts” by Henry van Dyke.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: IT is a curious fact that there is no good guide book to authorship. There are, of course, lots of self-portraits of authors at work. And there are many essays upon the craft of writing in general. The best of these portraits and advice are excellent reading, full of entertainment and instruction for the alert and candid mind, and touched with a special, sympathetic interest for those young persons who have sternly resolved, or fondly dreamed, that they will follow a literary career. 

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Listen to episode 1070 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building a Powerful Personality. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Personality is the sum of what you are. Personality means character— plus. Many persons have a good character, but a personality signifies something other than honesty, truthfulness, industry, and the like. It embodies all these and something more. Personality implies pleasing, winning ways, graciousness, heartiness, enthusiasm, magnetism. 

To have a gracious personality we must cultivate graciousness. To have a personality that radiates the right qualities, we must possess the right qualities. We cannot wear the right kind of personality and be the wrong kind of person. We may indeed have brilliant talents and un-selfish natures, and yet fail to cultivate or exhibit the kind of personality that inspires love and admiration. 

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Concentration: The Road to Success by Henry Harrison Brown, published in 1907. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Manuscript: Among the many forms and methods of concentration, prayer is the most common and the most potent. The secret of the religious world has been that prayer at the altar; with a prayer-book; through hymn, ritual, rite, and environment; has led the soul to the contemplation of holy thoughts, and by concentrating upon them, the thought thus sown in the mind has influenced the life for good.

Listen to episode 1069 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Life Can Change in an Instant. Edited and adapted from New Thought Healing Made Plain by Kate Atkinson Boehme.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In the forming of an organism, there is a moment when the Quickening comes; and from that moment, the organism becomes a creature of new life and action. Before the Quickening, it has life in a certain sense — that is, it grows and has some functional activities. But after the Quickening, it has a new power: that of independent movement, of acting upon impulses of its own. From being a negative being that is acted upon, it becomes an acting entity, an individual with a will of its own.

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Listen to episode 1068 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Personality and Your Speaking Voice: How to Develop Them by Clare Tree Major.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You may impress people through your physical poise; your refined voice and charm; the jewels of wisdom you have culled from life; but the real test of your power of personality lies in your command of the art of conversation.

The first rule of good conversation is to have something worth saying, and to say it as briefly and interestingly as possible. Merely pouring out a constant stream of words isn't conversation. No one can be more thoroughly and unforgivably boring  than the man or woman whose habit it is to  deluge every long suffering acquaintance with an unending flow of speech.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Manuscript: True Friendship is one of the rare gems of life, and its wonderful influence is known to all who have learned the secret of successful living. True Friendship is a condition between individuals where each is concerned of the other's well-being, where every success, joy, or sorrow is mutual, and because of its great influence for good, creates a state between people which meets with the highest approval of the Divine, and therefore takes the form of a direct blessing.

Listen to episode 1067 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Uplift Instead of Criticize. Adapted from the book: “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When we realize that to attain even a partial control over our own thoughts is a wonderful achievement (while complete self-mastery borders on the miraculous), the absurdity of trying to regulate the behavior of others is made so plain that no one can evade admitting it.

Action is the manifestation of thought. Imagination then may be said to be pictured thought, while personality is the materialization of Imagination. The more active the imagination, the more ingenuity is required to guide it into constructive paths and away from those that lead to criticism and condemnation of others whose conduct does not happen to meet with our approval, or whose example we fear may not be quite what it should be for somebody else.

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Listen to episode 1066 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Science of Being Great. Adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, you can develop your own mental faculties. Each one of us has an inherent power by which we may grow in whatsoever direction we please, and there does not appear to be any limit to the possibilities of our growth.

No person has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for someone else to become greater. The possibility is in the Original Substance from which we are made. Genius is Omniscience flowing into humanity.

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Listen to episode 1065 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Work. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. It was from a great person that I learned this principle, and their own life was a practical demonstration of it. I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to the end.