You Can Recreate Yourself | Motivational Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 896 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character & Happiness | Self-Development Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.
Motivational Podcast Excerpt: If you and I are not changing ourselves constantly, we are not fulfilling the character of our potential. It is a persistent and destructive heresy to say that our characters are fixed by influences outside ourselves. The weak person excuses themselves by saying that this or that unfortunate characteristic comes naturally to them. But it is all the more a discredit to them, that being conscious of some particular natural tendency to bad conduct, they have not gained a victory over their primitive self.
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| 0:45.8 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin McGarry, published in 1924. |
| 0:55.0 | All people are self-made. |
| 1:05.0 | For what we are, we are responsible. |
| 1:09.0 | It may not be our fault if we are too rich or too poor, but for the manhood and |
| 1:16.1 | womanhood that is ours, we ourselves are to be credited or blamed. Our character is not that |
| 1:23.7 | which was in us when we were born. It is that which we have added, by our own choices, |
| 1:31.2 | to our original endowment. A person may be rich in fortune, and powerful in body, because |
| 1:39.5 | their ancestors were so before them, but nobody is honest, save by their own choice. |
| 1:47.3 | Instinctively, we know that it is right and just, that we should give account of ourselves |
| 1:53.0 | for the deeds we have done. Character is therefore artificial. It is made not given. This is not to say that it's inauthentic or insincere. |
| 2:06.6 | A beautiful building is real, but it is artificial. Nature never build a Gothic cathedral. |
| 2:13.6 | Pictures, poems, machines, cities, civilization itself are real but artificial. |
| 2:24.2 | They are made by people. And so we make our own life just as truly as a house is built, |
| 2:32.9 | by using our thoughts and resolution, by self-denial, purpose, and perseverance. |
| 2:40.8 | Once upon a time, this process of self-making was called edification, which means literally |
| 2:48.3 | building. A woman and man, according to their thoughts, were an edifice. |
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