Start Living the Inspiring Life Meant for You

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

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

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Listen to episode 893 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Start Living the Inspiring Life Meant for You. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It’s been said that character is practically fixed for most people when they reach the age of 25. I suspect this is true — for how many of us rigorously and systematically take ourselves in hand every day, and work on overcoming our imperfections, our weaknesses?

Instead, we often excuse and attempt to justify ourselves, saying things like, "I can’t help it. It’s my temperament," or "My parents are the same way," or, "I am what I am." And, then, we go on spending our time in search of wealth or happiness, discharging more or less faithfully the duties of daily life, while spending little effort each day on eradicating our weaknesses and bettering ourselves.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about
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1:03.4	All lowercase.
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1:13.0	Shopify.com slash inspirational.
1:16.9	Thank you. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.
1:35.3	Today's reading was edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall, published in 1911.
1:52.2	The inner life of every individual is a battleground for opposing forces.
1:59.5	Nobody is either wholly good or wholly bad. We are all sometimes
2:05.2	good and sometimes bad. We know that we are possessed of good impulses and evil ones, of tendencies
2:15.3	upward and tendencies downward.
2:19.4	There are times when we carry ourselves with a pride and arrogance that offends even our friends.
2:26.0	There are other times when we live the quiet, humble, and unobtruse of life.
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