Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 655 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character & Happiness | Self-Development Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you have smiles, let us behold them. If there is kindness in you, let it be seen in your actions and heard in your speech. No person, having a candle, hides it under a bushel. Also, a good tree is known by its fruits. What we are is what we have made ourselves to be. It is for us to engrave on our lives the symbols of the eternal, or to deface them with anger, hatred, jealousies, and all the petty vexations of the spirit.

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Listen to episode 654 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Happy & Get Things Done. Adapted from Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “I HAVE no time,” that is not only the most familiar and convenient excuse for not doing something; it is also, one must confess, the excuse which has in it the greatest appearance of truth. Is it a good excuse? I must admit that within certain limits the excuse is reasonable. But I shall try to show how it is that this lack of time occurs, and how one may, at least in some degree, find the time you need.

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Listen to episode 653 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Self-Doubt | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: It is a superb faith (greater than any obstacle) that has made the great discoveries, that has been the great inventor, the great engineer, the great achiever in every line of human endeavor. There is little fear for the future of the young person who has a deep-seated faith in themselves. Self-faith has ever been more than a match for difficulties. It has been the poor person’s friend, their best capital.

People with no assets but colossal faith in themselves have accomplished wonders, when capital without self-faith has failed. If you believe in yourself, you will be much more likely to do the larger things you are capable of than if you were to hold a lack-of-confidence attitude.

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Listen to episode 652 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Self-Faith & Confidence. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Faith is an optimist because it sees the way out. Doubt is a pessimist because it cannot see the way ahead, and it’s afraid because it can’t cope with the uncertain. Faith opens the door of ability and develops superiority. The habit of expecting great things of ourselves calls out the best that is in us.

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Listen to episode 651 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Your Life in Tune | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is an orchestra, and your mind is the instrument. No matter how you use your mind, in whatever vocation you choose, you cannot afford to start your concert without getting it in tune. Whatever else you may do, do not play out of tune or work out of tune. Do not let your discordant instrument spoil your life. Because it will. Familiarity with discord will wreck your success perception.

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Listen to episode 650 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Growing in Spiritual Consciousness | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is the object of my existence here? These questions have been asked by people in all ages, and in every clime. For most of us, these questions still remain unanswered. We have sought, we have studied, we have believed, we have puzzled, we have theorized, we have guessed, and yet how much do we really know, how many of these deeper problems of our being have we actually solved in personal experience?

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Listen to episode 649 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Joy Nobody Can Take From You | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Joy that No Man Taketh from You by Lilian Whiting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Is it not true that there is an inner radiance, a joy that the world can neither give nor take away, which is an inalienable possession of the spirit, entirely independent of time, chance, or change? Cannot this joy be achieved by the soul, so that neither death nor privation, nor loss nor disappointment, nor trial in any of its many forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its energy?

For if it can be achieved, it would be the most important discovery of our lives. Joy is the very elixir of energy and inspiration — the most invincible force. It is the power which is able to conquer and prevail...

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Listen to episode 648 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Achievement of Character. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The inner life of every individual is a battle ground for opposing forces. Nobody is either wholly good or wholly bad. We are all sometimes good, and sometimes bad. We know that we are possessed of good impulses and evil ones, of tendencies upward and tendencies downward. There are times when we carry ourselves with a pride and arrogance that offends even our friends; there are other times when we live the quiet, humble, and unobtrusive life. We are sometimes selfish, and at other times unselfish.

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Listen to episode 647 of the Inspirational Living podcast: God, Unity & The Power Within You. 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 no longer possible, and we are thinking today of the universe as an Organism, alive throughout, surcharged with vital energy, throbbing and pulsating with powers of mind from its very center to its farthest circumference; not a dead world, not a mechanical world, not a world once made by a God who sits far off, but an Organism which is living, breathing, and pulsating constantly, with infinite energy, infinite life, infinite power.

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