Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Listen to episode 663 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Hard Times | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When someone gets to talking "hard times," they have a tendency to make a prisoner of themselves. They deny themselves everything that is worthwhile. They don’t enjoy what they have. They don’t keep up with life. They cease to grow. They bring about the very condition which they had been seeking to avoid.

"Hard times" has a good many relatives. It's the twin brother of the "blues." The "blues" is a condition which saps the very life out of a person. When the "blues" get possession of you, it dethrones hope, stifles courage, paralyzes ambition, ruins the personality, kills the desire to work, and falls like a blighting curse on every virtue.

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Listen to episode 662 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Change Your Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: There are two kinds of food: the kind that gives the body strength and beauty, and the kind that simply enables it to eke out a mere existence. And so there are two kinds of reading matter: the kind that makes people grow (the kind that gives a person ideas that help them to discover themselves and opens their eyes to a great and glorious world of prosperity and happiness), and the other kind of reading, which is only trash. Yes, it may not be so very bad, it may not be bad at all in one sense, but there is nothing uplifting in it. It doesn't build you up. Like trashy food, it simply keeps you alive; that's all. It doesn't inspire you with hope or enthusiasm or any desire to pick yourself up and do a little better. It is the kind that makes us fail.

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Listen to episode 661 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is the Meaning of Life? | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Book of Courage by William James Dawson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The greatest of all questions is “What is the meaning of life?” Sooner or later every person has to find some sort of answer to that question. We can live neither wisely nor courageously without it. It may even be said that a wrong answer (or an answer only partially right) is better than none; for the person who thinks themselves right, even though they be wrong, will attain better ends than the one who is wholly uncertain as to the right or wrongness of their acts.

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Listen to episode 660 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Think on These Things: Inspirational Life Lessons. 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 dropping seeds. Every person we talk with, every friendship we cherish, every book we read, sows seeds which will grow and become the harvest of life.

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Listen to episode 659 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking on the Challenge of Life. Edited and adapted from The Challenge of Life by Charles Forrest Moore.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The most profitable experiences of my life have seldom been of my own choosing. They have come to me unbidden, and often times unannounced. Many of them indeed I would have avoided, if any way of escape had been open. And, moreover, I believe that most men and women who speak the truth, would, if called upon, say the same thing.

Most of us begin adulthood with more or less a planned course we want to pursue. But if we aim to be the architect of our own fortune, we are ordinarily obliged to revise our plans so often, and so radically, that sooner or later the original blue-prints must be discarded altogether.

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Listen to episode 658 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Being Cheerful Will Change Your Life. Edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a tremendous amount of satisfaction and pleasure to be got out of the hardest journey through life. The secret of finding it is to make Cheerfulness a constant daily habit. I have traveled a great deal around the world and off the beaten tracks with different companions. Some of them found the hardships and discomforts of the journey sources of genuine interest and amusement, while others were driven to despondency and irritability by the same conditions.

Cheerfulness is, as a matter of fact, one of the most easily acquired characteristics. Unlike most cultivable traits, it carries its reward in immediate effects, thus there is constant encouragement to persevere. Cheerfulness is infectious. Every ray of brightness that you throw out is reflected back upon you.

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Listen to episode 657 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Choosing Your Life’s Road. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:All roads start from where you are. They run in all directions, and you may wonder which is the best road to take. All have a way of their own of inviting you, and each has its own particular enticements. Roads seem to know you and expect you. They keep open for you both day and night. But there is a big difference in the roads, and it is most important that you choose the best.

At the beginning, the roads may look so very much alike that you may not hesitate much in your choice. You will find, however, as you journey on that the difference in the end is tremendous.

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Listen to episode 656 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no cure for the unhappiness of regret, or the sorrow of bereavement, that is so effective as a well-defined purpose. Misery cannot live with resolution. As soon as we “make up our minds,” relief comes. A course of action is better for most cases of unhappiness than a course of medicine. People talk of “divine discontent” and of “ambition’s holy fire,” but these things are neither divine nor holy. Discontent no more incites to action than indigestion does to appetite. In both cases there is a gnawing hunger that can never be satisfied. Ambition is thus often a torture, a tempter, a whip without a bridle.

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