Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
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With 25+ million downloads, the Inspirational Living has been offering motivational broadcasts for the mind, body, and spirit since 2016. If you want to find a free online life coach, look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Each self-development podcast is edited & adapted from the books and essays of classic inspirational writers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, Booker T. Washington, James Allen, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Orison Swett Marden, Neville Goddard, and Frederick Douglass, as well as self-development authors who have largely been lost to history but deserve to be re-discovered again and enjoyed. Subscribe to...
Episodes(40 episodes)
You Have Tremendous Hidden Powers
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 impossible, be to you like the horizon line, which is really no line at all. It is merely where your sight stops, and depends upon the point where you stand.--------------------- Get our popular 3 books of Life Lesso...
Published: Sep 10, 2026Duration: 15m 54s
How to Accomplish the Most in Your Life
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 find, too, that there are two classes of people. There is one class that is schooling itself, and constantly training itself, to look upon the dark side of life; and there is...
Published: Sep 8, 2026Duration: 13m 8s
The Call of the Upper Road
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 patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Excerpt: Voices are everywhere calling in nature. There is ever all about you something that calls to you...
Published: Sep 6, 2026Duration: 5m 30s
Becoming a Person of Original Power
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 whole force into one channel; there is always a reserve of power beyond the demands of the work which they have in hand at the moment. If you w...
Published: Sep 4, 2026Duration: 14m 35s
Gaining a Grander Vision of Life | Motivational Podcasts
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 in advancing them on their course. A ship that is going in the wrong direction can be turned because it is guided by a driving force. But you can do nothing w...
Published: Sep 1, 2026Duration: 14m 43s
Welcome Your Difficulties!
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 by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Excerpt: The school of difficulty is the best school of moral discipline — for nations and for individuals. Indeed, the history of di...
Published: Aug 30, 2026Duration: 4m 45s
Your Supreme Responsibility
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 UNconscious influence, the silent, subtle radiation of our personality, the effect of our words and acts, the trifles we never consider — is tremendous. In every moment of life, we are changing to a degree the l...
Published: Aug 27, 2026Duration: 17m 6s
The Creative Power in Ourselves
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 enjoy by means of this power. When we are drawing from the infinite, we need never be afraid of taking more than our share. That is not where...
Published: Aug 25, 2026Duration: 14m 15s
A Powerful Daily Meditation
Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was 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 about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Excerpt: II am going to share with you a powerful meditation that can be used every day or twice a day if possible (once upo...
Published: Aug 23, 2026Duration: 9m 0s
The Lost Art of Lying in Bed | Literary Podcasts
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 might be accomplished with several buckets of paint and a broom. But if one worked in a really sweeping and masterly way, and laid on the...
Published: Aug 20, 2026Duration: 7m 59s
Building Courage for Success in Life
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 reason logically, and therefore assumes the air of comradeship rather than "overseer" or "boss." Only through lack of moral and physical courage are we to become the slaves of anxiety. Courage — the child of H...
Published: Aug 18, 2026Duration: 15m 53s
All that is Great is Within You
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 by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Excerpt: In the smallest particle of matter is mirrored the infinitely great. The atom (with its ever busy group of el...
Published: Aug 16, 2026Duration: 5m 33s
How to See the Beauty in Life | Inspirational Podcasts
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 beautiful and the non-beautiful. The apprehension of beauty has to come to us with a vigorous blow to awaken our consciousness from its primitive lethargy, and it attains its goal by the urgency of th...
Published: Aug 13, 2026Duration: 14m 3s
The Necessity of Poetry in Life
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 right word and to discard all others, this is the chief factor in good writing. To learn good poetry by heart is to acquire help toward doing this instinctively, automatically as other habits are a...
Published: Aug 11, 2026Duration: 16m 53s
The Requirements of Personal Evolution
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://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Excerpt: In all the world, there are only two kinds of people — those who know, and those who do not know; and this...
Published: Aug 9, 2026Duration: 13m 31s
The Philosophy of Long Life
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 it. The word becomes idea, thought, and conviction — the covering of the object thus identifying itself with the object itself. If the vanishing of our bod...
Published: Aug 4, 2026Duration: 16m 13s
How to Take a New Hold on Life
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://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Your ability to take a new hold on life depends upon your ability to break with the thoughts of the past and...
Published: Aug 2, 2026Duration: 8m 8s
Inspiring Thoughts on Your Immortal Life
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 great proof of immortality: the fact that it is written in human nature; written there so plain that the no nation has failed to find it, to know it; written just as much as form is written on...
Published: Jul 30, 2026Duration: 16m 0s
Advice to Young Artists
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 appealing to the intellect, we, on the contrary, seek to materialize it in a form that gives joy to the soul through the senses. We want to create art, not...
Published: Jul 28, 2026Duration: 12m 39s
You are the Maker of Your Destiny | Our Sunday Talks
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 going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: NEVER say that you wish your situation were different! Never wish you had some other person's li...
Published: Jul 26, 2026Duration: 4m 5s