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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 1123 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most of Your Life. Adapted from the book The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: LIFE means action, from the cradle to the grave. There are limitless possibilities in this life to bring into realization whatever hopes or aspirations we desire. If we only but begin…
There is no such thing as inaction during this life. We are continually going forward or backward. You are either stronger or weaker this year than you were last year.
You are braver or more cowardly. You are more hopeful or more pessimistic. You are more capable mentally or less so. You have better or poorer command of your forces. You have more efficiency or not as much. You are nearer your goal or farther from it. You are a better human being or not as good.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book entitled The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler |
| 0:22.2 | Wilcox published in 1914. |
| 0:30.8 | Life means action from the cradle to the grave. |
| 0:36.0 | There are limitless possibilities in this life to bring into realization whatever hopes |
| 0:41.3 | or aspirations we desire, if we only but begin. |
| 0:47.3 | There is no such thing as inaction during this life. |
| 0:51.3 | We are continually going forward or backward. You are either stronger or weaker |
| 0:58.3 | this year than you were last year. You are braver or more cowardly. You are more hopeful or more |
| 1:07.3 | pessimistic. You are more capable mentally, or less so. |
| 1:13.6 | You have better or poorer command of your forces. |
| 1:18.6 | You have more efficiency, or not as much. |
| 1:23.6 | You are near your goal, or farther from it. You are a better human being or not as good. |
| 1:31.3 | Next year at this time, you will be farther onward or farther backward. |
| 1:38.3 | Every thought, every word, and every act of each day is chisling out the statue you are making of yourself. |
| 1:47.0 | If you desire to be an expression of the universe's finest handiwork, |
| 1:52.0 | you must work with care. |
| 1:55.0 | Delicate tools are these thoughts of ours, and they must be used with caution. |
| 2:02.7 | Every morning say to yourself, |
| 2:04.6 | Today I will think of whatever is beautiful, strong, noble, wholesome, and worthy. |
| 2:11.6 | I will entertain hope, courage, reverence, gratitude, and love as the guess of my heart. I will make thoughts |
| 2:21.9 | of health at ease in the guest chamber of my mind, so disease may not enter. I will achieve |
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