Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Need a free online life coach? Look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Inspiring readings from James Allen, Napoleon Hill, Hellen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Khalil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, and more. With over 25 million downloads, we have been one of the most popular self-development podcasts since 2016. Listen to our inspirational podcasts every Tuesday and Thursday, and browse hundreds of uplifting podcasts in our archive. Buy our best-selling trilogy of books based on the readings heard on the podcast at: https://livinghour.org/books Or visit Amazon.com

  1. 1d ago

    Why You Must Lead and Not Compromise

    Listen to episode 1171 of the Inspirational Living podcast: When To Compromise & When Not To. Adapted from “Some Needed Notes on American Character” by Robert E. Speer. Podcast Excerpt: I do not believe anyone was ever permanently helped by compromise---for it gets us into more difficulty than it removes, because compromise throws together things that are not congruous or reconcilable. This is its very nature. It brings into one bed things that cannot sleep together, into one union things that cannot be tied. And it postpones real settlements in the interest of spurious arrangements, sacrificing some “greater good” for the less, on no more creditable ground than that the less is nearer. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  2. 3d ago

    The True Source of Great Joy | Inspirational Podcasts

    Listen to episode 1170 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The True Source of Great Joy. Edited and adapted from Heretics by G.K. Chesterton. Podcast Excerpt: When discussing the subject of strong drink, some people think it’s wise to suggest that wine or such stuff should only be drunk as a medicinal. With this I would venture to disagree with a peculiar ferocity. The one genuinely dangerous and immoral way of drinking wine is to drink it as a medicine. When a person drinks wine in order to obtain pleasure, they are trying to obtain something exceptional, something they do not expect every hour of the day, something which, unless they are a little insane, they will not try to get every hour of the day.  But when a person drinks wine in order to obtain health, they are trying to get something natural; something, that is, that they ought not to be without; something that they may find it difficult to reconcile being without. Thus they may begin down the slippery slope of drinking alcohol to help ameliorate whatever happens to ail them. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  3. 5d ago

    The Source of All Greatness | Our Sunday Talks

    Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from All These Things Added by James Allen, published in 1902. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you. Podcast Excerpt: Goodness, simplicity, greatness — these three are one, and this trinity of perfection cannot be separated. All greatness springs from goodness, and all goodness is profoundly simple. Without goodness there is no greatness. Some people pass through the world as destructive forces, like the tornado or the avalanche, but they are not great. They are to greatness as the avalanche is to the mountain. The work of greatness is enduring and preservative, and not violent and destructive. The greatest souls are the most gentle. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  4. Oct 29

    Let Your Life Be an Adventure

    Listen to episode 1169 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Achieving Better Health & Greater Success. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Podcast Excerpt: Our life follows the fortunes of our faith, and one brave push of trust will lead out into large and spacious ways. The cowardly proverbs are answered by the bolder sayings which tell us that if we never venture we can never win. They wave the flag of adventure in the eyes of youth, and at least suggest a better ideal than the world's stale wisdom of stodgy respectability and cautious prudence.  Adventure is the true scientific attitude towards life, for science only advances by experiment. It is true that there are risks, but just because a chemist may sometimes blow himself up by a novel chemical composition, this does not stop experiments in chemistry. An experiment in social life may also go wrong by a wrong mixture of ingredients, but if we could not learn from our mistakes we could not learn at all.  ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  5. Oct 27

    Achieving Better Health & Greater Success

    Listen to episode 1168 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Achieving Better Health & Greater Success. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Podcast Excerpt: THERE are two great obstacles along the path to health and success. They are fear and hate. Not only do they bar your path to success, not only do they break down your health, but they also destroy all happiness and peace of mind. They are the most negative of all negative qualities, and give rise to the most negative of thoughts and the most destructive emotions. They break down the fabric of the character, destroy the nervous system, and create disharmony and disturbance which effectually keep success, health, peace of mind, and happiness at a distance. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  6. Oct 25

    The Greatest Gift from God

    Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Staying Out of Mental Ruts, published in 1883. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you. Podcast Excerpt: No individual can convey their thoughts, ideas, and impressions entire to another. Language, either written or spoken, is but a symbol, and at best an imperfect vehicle to convey thought. The meaning of truth is deflected in its transmission. “Thought is deeper than speech; feeling deeper than thought; souls to souls can never teach what to themselves is taught.” Our mental and spiritual visions differ as the stars differ in magnitude. The same light does not shine with equal brilliancy on the pathway of each individual. What is light to one, may be a shadow to another. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  7. Oct 22

    Inspirational Speaking: Learn a Toast for Every Occasion

    Listen to episode 1166 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Success in Anything. Edited and adapted from Sowing & Reaping by Booker T. Washington. Podcast Excerpt: May the sparks of love brighten into a flame. May we kiss whom we please and please whom we kiss. Here is to Love in every breast, liberty in every heart, and learning in every head. To The three F's: Friendship, Feeling, and Fidelity; Friendship without interest, Feeling for the depressed, Fidelity to truth.  May Love and Reason be friends, and Beauty and Prudence marry. May those who escape the quick sands of jealousy never find themselves on the shoals of indifference.  In the voyage of life, may Contentment be our fellow passenger. May we be happy, and our enemies know it. May our counsels be wise, and our commerce increase, and may we ever experience the blessings of peace.  ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  8. Oct 20

    The Secret to Success in Anything

    Listen to episode 1166 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Success in Anything. Edited and adapted from Sowing & Reaping by Booker T. Washington. Podcast Excerpt: What I am about to tell you now is true of all the pursuits of life. We get out of every venture just what we put into it; no more, no less. To attain success we must put forth hard and honest labor. At the back of all success there is hard, persistent labor. There is no royal road — those who think there is always fail. No person ever reaped any success in life who did not sow wisely.  As each person takes up the serious business of life, they must do something — they must labor and wait. In order to reap something, something must be done. Value for value is the real standard of life's exchange of benefits. ---------------------                                  Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron  Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Need a free online life coach? Look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Inspiring readings from James Allen, Napoleon Hill, Hellen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Khalil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, and more. With over 25 million downloads, we have been one of the most popular self-development podcasts since 2016. Listen to our inspirational podcasts every Tuesday and Thursday, and browse hundreds of uplifting podcasts in our archive. Buy our best-selling trilogy of books based on the readings heard on the podcast at: https://livinghour.org/books Or visit Amazon.com

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