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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Listen to episode 934 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live a Better & Larger Life. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "Living will teach you how to live better than any preacher or book," says Goethe. But what is it to live? Is it simply to eat, drink, and be merry? Is it to learn a little, here and there; to laugh and play; to sleep, weep, toil, and battle from day to day, and from year to year for food and shelter?

Life is more than that. It has larger uses. It contains greater and grander results. It holds loftier and nobler aspirations....

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0:46.0	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixen, published in 1894.
0:55.0	Living will teach you how to live better than any preacher or book, says Gerta.
1:09.0	But what is it to live? Is it simply to eat, drink, and be
1:15.0	merry? Is it to learn a little here and there, to laugh and play, to sleep, weep, toil, and
1:23.5	battle from day to day, and from year to year for food and shelter.
1:29.3	Is it to bend every energy to the acquirement of wealth, fame, or position?
1:35.3	Is it to sacrifice all for the applause of the multitude?
1:40.3	Life is more than that. It has larger uses.
1:45.0	It contains greater and grander results.
1:49.0	It holds loftier and nobler aspirations.
1:53.0	Its measure is flaming with the fires of truth,
1:57.0	glowing with the gold of understanding. Life rightly lived is an inspiration, an incentive
2:05.8	to high effort, a means of true and sure happiness. The one who is worthy of the praise
2:13.9	and gratitude of millions is the individual who can impress upon the minds of others,
2:20.5	that there is more to life than just a dig and delve for food and necessities.
2:26.6	They will receive even greater praise and honor if they can show people how to so employ their
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