Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox, published in 1912.

The tadpole becomes a frog or toad, something of more importance than a tadpole.

The caterpillar becomes a butterfly, but the brightest child may live a hundred years,

never become a genuine woman or man, a true individual.

In becoming your true self, there is more to do than finding enough to eat in a place

to sleep. The animals do that. There are kind words to speak, loads to lift, and people to cheer,

help and save. There are intellectual problems to be solved, spiritual heights to be scaled, a passion for

service and a love of humanity to be cultivated.

Every day, every year can bring a higher state of existence, a more marvelous transformation.

No person can estimate the influence or possibilities of a human life.

If you do not use your talent, you lose it.

Talent is the result of expression.

Education is not so much what we absorb as what we reflect.

Information is necessary as a matter of intelligence, but expression is necessary for growth.

Talent comes only through constant expression, constant effort.

When the Creator made the world, he started it on its flight through the heavens.

There is no stopping or turning back.

When the world stops, the end will come. You and I were also made to move,

and when we stop, that is the end of us. Unfortunately, too many people stop before they start,

and they are dead before they begin to live. For each person who does all they can,

there are ten who bury their talents in the ground. You may save some things for a time

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