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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour 621 Episodes Sep 20, 2026

With over 25 million downloads, this podcast offers motivational broadcasts for mind, body, and spirit since 2016. Each episode is adapted from classic inspirational writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, and James Allen, as well as lesser-known self-development authors. The podcast aims to help listeners live up to their highest potential through weekly free episodes. It also offers a trilogy of books based on the readings and a Patreon for full transcripts and bonus content.

Episodes

How to Live a Fulfilled Life | Our Sunday Talks
How to Live a Fulfilled Life | Our Sunday Talks Sep 20, 2026 600 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918. 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
Why the Older Should be Happier
Why the Older Should be Happier Sep 17, 2026 983 Listen to episode 1157 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Benefits of Growing Older. Edited and adapted from Essays of an Optimist by John William Kaye.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the great advantages of age is that we are not wont to disturb ourselves by doing things that we do not like, simply for the look of the thing. There is absolute misery in pretentiousness of all kinds, an
Inspiration from Lao Tzu | Wisdom of the Tao Te Ching
Inspiration from Lao Tzu | Wisdom of the Tao Te Ching Sep 15, 2026 1087 Listen to episode 1156 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Tao Te Ching. Edited and adapted from Dwight Goddard’s translation of the Lao Tzu’s classic book Tao Te Ching.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The Tao that can be understood cannot be the primal, or cosmic, Tao, just as an idea that can be expressed in words cannot be the infinite idea.And yet this ineffable Tao is the source of all spirit
Building Up a Heroic Soul | Our Sunday Talks
Building Up a Heroic Soul | Our Sunday Talks Sep 13, 2026 302 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895. 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 recei
You Have Tremendous Hidden Powers
You Have Tremendous Hidden Powers Sep 10, 2026 954 Listen to episode 1154 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Unchain the Giant Within. Edited and adapted from New Thought Healing Made Plain by Kate Atkinson Boehme.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The human being has always had many hitherto undiscovered powers, the horizon of the Impossible continually receding as we advance upon it. Let your limit line of belief, separating the possible from the
How to Accomplish the Most in Your Life
How to Accomplish the Most in Your Life Sep 8, 2026 788 Listen to episode 1153 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Accomplish the Most in Your Life. Edited and adapted from Character Building by Booker T. Washington.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In thought, in talk, in action, I think you will find that you can separate life into these two divisions: the dark side and the bright side, the discouraging side and the encouraging side. You will fi
The Call of the Upper Road
The Call of the Upper Road Sep 6, 2026 330 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Nature & The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan, published in 1924. 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
Becoming a Person of Original Power
Becoming a Person of Original Power Sep 4, 2026 875 Listen to episode 1152 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Become a Well Rounded Person. Edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A person of original power can never be confined within the limits of a single field of interest, nor can they ever be content to use the skills of a single occupation. They cannot pour their whol
Gaining a Grander Vision of Life | Motivational Podcasts
Gaining a Grander Vision of Life | Motivational Podcasts Sep 1, 2026 883 Listen to episode 1151 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is Your Ambition? Edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The tragedy of life is to be found in the young individual who drifts aimlessly out into life's elements, only to be destroyed by the very forces which he or she, by divine right, should harness, master, and utilize i
Welcome Your Difficulties!
Welcome Your Difficulties! Aug 30, 2026 285 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. 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
Your Supreme Responsibility
Your Supreme Responsibility Aug 27, 2026 1026 Listen to episode 1150 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Supreme Responsibility. Edited and adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The only responsibility that we cannot evade in this life is the one we think of least — our personal influence. Our conscious influence, when posing to impress those around us, is woefully small. But our UN
The Creative Power in Ourselves
The Creative Power in Ourselves Aug 25, 2026 855 Listen to episode 1149 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Spirit of Opulence & Beauty. Adapted from The Hidden Power by Thomas Troward.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many of our problems in life are due to a misapprehension of the nature of our own power. If we clearly realize that the creative power in ourselves is unlimited, then there is no reason to limit the extent of what we can en

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