Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Love's Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918.

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Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: Many of us do not realize the great value and importance of even the most trifling service unselfishly rendered a fellow being. We do not realize that the habit of kindness, of unselfishly serving another whenever we can, will not only benefit those we serve, but it will help ourselves even more. It will make our own lives richer, fuller, stronger, than the lives of the self-centered ever can be.

Listen to episode 817 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most of Your Personal Power. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The golden rule, therefore, is to keep your strong qualities in front of your eyes, so to speak, and ignore your weak ones. Do not pander to these latter ones. Treat them as if they were sources of strength, too. That is what Shakespeare means when he says, "Assume a virtue if you have it not.”

Every now and then you will ask yourself how your weak faculties are improving (and if you have done your best to develop your mind and character); and you will have the satisfaction of noting an extraordinary development of strength which you never dreamed of.

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Listen to episode 816 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most Out of Your Day. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When Alexander Pope wrote the line, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast," he expressed a truth that (considered in the fullness of its suggestion) is electrifying. With the coming of the inspiring impulse of hope, we find again open to us the doors that have shut us in. We look out over a vast field of possibility.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Spirit of Helpfulness and Good Cheer - How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun published in 1895.

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Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: No person gives themselves up to the spirit of helpfulness without strengthening their own life too. This spirit of self-forgetfulness and cheerful helpfulness is an essential quality of the true heroic soul — the soul that is not disturbed by circumstances, but goes on its way, strong and imparting strength.

Listen to episode 815 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build Wealth Within and Without. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: RICHES that are obtained under proper conditions represent not merely an accumulation of money. They develop and broaden our mental and moral forces. The love of money that is the root of all evil is the covetousness of avarice: the love of money for its own sake. When acquiring money from this motive there is no growth of larger and better power, no uplift, no rising to a wider vision.

Everything that is of value as a force is capable of benefit or harm. The force of the mind can be directed either for evil or for good. Reverie and rest can easily degenerate into laziness and dreamy longings. Or they can be directed and utilized to build upon present forces and draw to us those that are beneficial.

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Listen to episode 814 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Increase Your Mental Power. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.

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Podcast Transcript: It is safe to say that the average man or woman could increase their mental power thirty percent by the elimination of friction. The mere statement of this fact proves that very thoughtful, systematic, and thorough effort should be made to avoid friction in every area of life.

The effort should be first to avoid it in one's self. Never permit anything to worry or irritate you. Simply make it a principle that you will not be worried, that you will not be irritated, that you will not fret nor worry, and above all, that you will not allow fear, anger, malice, or hatred to enter your mind.

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Listen to episode 813 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking Control of Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from Realization by Elkanah M. Gibson.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Cheerful, positive thoughts invigorate both the mind and body. They are a better tonic than any medicine. Good, pure thoughts strengthen the will, increase courage, give vitality to the brain, health to the body, and love to the heart.

There are two roads open to every person. One leads to health, strength, beauty, long life, honor, and happiness; the other to sickness, sorrow, gloom, disease, and death. The allurements and temptations are many, and it requires courage and will-power to resist them....

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Listen to episode 812 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Stay in the Sunshine of Life. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: An old man once said, "I have had many troubles in my life, but most of them never happened." Remember that. Yes, life presents its problems. It would not be worthwhile otherwise. But an overdose of seriousness magnifies them, and in this manner we are often cowed by an imaginary giant, and in the dread of our illusion, turn back on the road of progress.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop, published in 1899.

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Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: The school of difficulty is the best school — for nations and for individuals. Indeed, the history of difficulty is but a history of all the great and good things that have been accomplished. Wherever there is difficulty, the individual must come out for better or for worse. Encountering difficulty will train your strength, and discipline your skill; heartening you for future effort, just as a racer, by being trained to run up a high hill, runs on a track with speed and grace.

Listen to episode 811 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Poverty Begins with Your Mindset. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power & Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We cannot travel toward prosperity until our mental attitude faces prosperity. As long as we look toward despair, we shall never arrive at the harbor of delight. The individual who persists in holding their mental attitude toward poverty, or who is always thinking of their hard luck and failures, cannot possibly go in the opposite direction, where the goal of prosperity lies.

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