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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour 621 Episodes Jul 2, 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

Living in the Great Eternal Now Jul 2, 2026 772 Listen to episode 1135 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living in the Great Eternal Now. Adapted from How to Stay Young by Christian D. Larson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is only in the now that you can live. You can live neither in the past nor in the future. You may think of the past or the future, but you can live only in the now. To train the mind to concentrate the whole of attentio
Living the Optimistic Life | Uplifting Podcasts Jul 1, 2026 953 Listen to episode 1134 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living the Optimistic Life. Edited and adapted from Helen Keller’s essay on optimism.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let it be remembered that the world’s philosophers — the Sayers of the Word — were optimists; so also are the men and women of action and achievement—the Doers of the Word. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the sta
The True Power of Transformation Jun 28, 2026 357 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Light on Life's Difficulties by James Allen. 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
Here is Your Key to Success | Motivational Podcasts Jun 25, 2026 558 Listen to episode 1133 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Here is Your Key to Success. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nobody can hand you a ready-made key to open the door of success. You must fashion your own key and find the combination of the lock for yourself. No magician can waft you to the heights of fortune and fame. You cannot fl
The Emotional Forces that Drive Success Jun 23, 2026 974 Listen to episode 1132 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Emotional Forces that Drive Success. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Will Power by Clare Tree Major.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Self-control is emotional control. Like all forces inherent in human nature, the emotional forces work equally thoroughly in either direction, as builders or as destroyers. You are, whether you
How to Succeed in the Game of Life Jun 18, 2026 790 Listen to episode 1131 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in the Game of Life. Adapted from “If I Were Twenty-One” by Dr. Frank Crane.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Never forget that anyone can be happy if they choose to be. Happiness does not depend on circumstance, but upon YOU. This is perhaps the greatest truth in the world, and the one most persistently disbelieved.Happiness,
The Power of Laughter & Cheerfulness Jun 16, 2026 604 Listen to episode 1130 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Joyous people are not only the happiest, but the longest lived, the most useful and the most successful. A sense of humor, the love of fun in human nature, is a normal, natural lubricant which oils life's machinery, makes i
How to Stay Calm and Reduce Stress Jun 11, 2026 776 Listen to episode 1129 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Calm, Cool & Collected. Adapted from a lecture by Dr. George Lincoln Walton.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we are to change our mental attitudes, we should begin by modifying them by suggestion. In attacking faulty mental habits, suggestion is the most potent agent at our command. There is nothing new or pseudo-scientific
We Must Strive to Do Great Things Jun 9, 2026 994 Listen to episode 1128 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We Must Strive to do Great Deeds. Edited and adapted from a speech by Teddy Roosevelt.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person has stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the men and women who are actually in the arena, w
The True Nature of Reality | Our Sunday Talks Jun 7, 2026 548 Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Light on Life's Difficulties by James Allen. 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
The Life-Changing Power of Habit Jun 4, 2026 987 Listen to episode 1127 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Life-Changing Power of Habit. Adapted from book The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Habit is our "best friend or worst enemy." We are "walking bundles of habits." Habit is a "cable which we cannot break." Such are the popular expressions linked with habitual behavi
Beauty & The Philosophy of Tea Jun 2, 2026 833 Listen to episode 1126 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Beauty & The Philosophy of Tea. Edited and adapted from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about humanity and nature. It is hygiene, for it enf

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