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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour 621 Episodes Aug 23, 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

A Powerful Daily Meditation
A Powerful Daily Meditation Aug 23, 2026 540 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Meditate on the Infinite Powers Within. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin. 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
The Lost Art of Lying in Bed | Literary Podcasts
The Lost Art of Lying in Bed | Literary Podcasts Aug 20, 2026 479 Listen to episode 1148 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Lost Art of Lying in Bed. Edited and Adapted from an essay by G.K. Chesterton.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience, if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. This, however, is not generally a part of the domestic apparatus. I have fancied that it m
Building Courage for Success in Life
Building Courage for Success in Life Aug 18, 2026 953 Listen to episode 1147 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Courage for Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Assuming Responsibilities by Douglas Fairbanks. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: With courage we order our own lives and take orders only from those of superior wisdom. This we can never afford not to do. The courageous person of largest vision takes command by their power to rea
All that is Great is Within You
All that is Great is Within You Aug 16, 2026 333 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Life in its Fullness by Charles Thomas Parnell, published in 1922. 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
How to See the Beauty in Life | Inspirational Podcasts
How to See the Beauty in Life | Inspirational Podcasts Aug 13, 2026 843 Listen to episode 1146 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to See the Beauty in Life. Edited and adapted from The Realisation of Life by Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1916.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:The Upanishads have said that all things are created and sustained by an infinite joy. To realize this principle of creation, we have to start with a division — the division into the beauti
The Necessity of Poetry in Life
The Necessity of Poetry in Life Aug 11, 2026 1013 Listen to episode 1145 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Poetry in Life. Edited and adapted from Life's Enthusiasms by David Starr Jordan.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Poetry is truth expressed in the fewest possible words, in words which are inevitable, in words which could not be changed without weakening the meaning or throwing discord into the melody. To choose the ri
The Requirements of Personal Evolution
The Requirements of Personal Evolution Aug 9, 2026 811 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted At the Feet of the Master by Jiddu Krishnamurti. 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://li
The Philosophy of Long Life
The Philosophy of Long Life Aug 4, 2026 973 Listen to episode 1144 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Philosophy of Long Life. Edited and adapted from The Philosophy of Long Life by Jean Finot.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is led, not only by ideas, but above all by words. It is sometimes only necessary to give a thing a pleasant or a repulsive name, and our mind will be at once penetrated with the significance thus lent to
How to Take a New Hold on Life
How to Take a New Hold on Life Aug 2, 2026 488 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney.. 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
Inspiring Thoughts on Your Immortal Life
Inspiring Thoughts on Your Immortal Life Jul 30, 2026 960 Listen to episode 1143 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspiring Thoughts on Your Immortal Life, edited & adapted from Theodore Parker's Unitarian sermon on immortality.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Immortality is what philosophers call an ontological fact; it belongs essentially to our being, just as the eye is a physiological fact and belongs to our body. To my mind this is the gre
Advice to Young Artists
Advice to Young Artists Jul 28, 2026 759 Listen to episode 1142 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Advice to Young Artists. Edited and adapted from an Oscar Wilde lecture to art students.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I do not desire to give you any abstract definition of beauty. For we who are working in art cannot accept any theory of beauty in exchange for beauty itself, and, rather than desiring to isolate it in a formula ap
You are the Maker of Your Destiny | Our Sunday Talks
You are the Maker of Your Destiny | Our Sunday Talks Jul 26, 2026 245 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin, published in 1904. 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 go

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