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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

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

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918. This series has over 200 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How little do the majority of us realize that everything that is desirable is so only because of its cost in effort! Supposing the Creator had provided everything full grown, ready made for our use, and that every human being had been college educated when born; supposing every wish could be gratified without any effort on our part, who would want to live in such a backboneless, jellyfish world, where there was no stamina, no initiative, no grit, no resolution, no incentive to activity, and consequently no stalwart manhood, no strong sweet womanhood, — because you know that all these things would be impossible without the constant struggle to attain.

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1:22.6	Inspirational. Welcome to our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the inspirational living podcast.
1:45.3	Today's talk was edited and adapted from
1:48.2	Love's Way by Orson Sweat Martin, published in 1918.
2:00.4	God's medicine is work that we love. God's medicine is work that we love.
2:05.0	God's plan for our development, our growth in mental and physical power and resourcefulness,
2:11.0	is work.
2:13.1	It is the desire to attain, the struggle to realize our dreams, that unfolds our powers,
2:22.3	calls out our reserves, forms our character, makes the woman and man.
2:29.3	There is no other way than through this evolutionary process that this great end can be
2:36.6	accomplished.
2:39.2	Growth and happiness are found only in work, yet how most of us grumble at having to work
2:46.2	so hard for everything we get.
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