How to Have Success at Any Age
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Listen to episode 988 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Have Success at Any Age. Edited and adapted from “Self-Control: It’s Kingship & Majesty” by William George Jordan.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we honestly seek to live our best at all times, that determination is visible in every moment of our living, and no trifle in our lives can be too insignificant to reflect this principle of living. The sun illuminates a fallen leaf by the roadside as impartially as a towering mountain peak in the Alps. Every drop of water in the ocean is an epitome of the chemistry of the whole ocean; every drop is subject to precisely the same laws as dominate the united infinity of billions of drops that make that miracle of Nature we call the Sea.
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| 0:45.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from self-control, |
| 0:50.3 | It's Kingship and Majesty, by William George Jordan, published in 1898. |
| 0:57.0 | Life is a wondrously complex problem for each one of us, until one day, in a moment of illumination, |
| 1:16.2 | we awaken to the great realization that we can make it simple. Never quite simple, but always simpler. |
| 1:26.5 | There are a thousand mysteries of right and wrong that have baffled the wise ones of the ages. |
| 1:34.3 | There are depths in the great fundamental question of the human race |
| 1:39.3 | that no plummet of philosophy has ever sounded. |
| 1:48.1 | There are wild cries of honest hunger for the truth that seek to pierce the silence beyond the grave, but ever echo back only a repetition of |
| 1:55.9 | these unanswered cries. To us all there comes at times, a great note of questioning despair that darkens our |
| 2:06.9 | horizon and paralyzes our effort. We say to ourselves, if there really be a God, if eternal justice really rules the world, why should life be as it is? |
| 2:23.8 | Why do some people starve while others feast? Why does virtue often languish in the shadow, |
| 2:32.9 | while vice triumphs in the sunshine. Why does failure so often |
| 2:39.0 | dog the footsteps of honest effort, while the success that comes from trickery and dishonor is |
| 2:46.7 | greeted with the world's applause? How is it that the loving parent of one family is |
| 2:54.2 | taken by death while the worthless one of another is spared? Why is there so much |
| 3:01.4 | unnecessary pain, sorrow, and suffering in the world? Why indeed should there be any at all? Neither philosophy nor religion |
| 3:13.4 | can give any final satisfactory answer. There is ever, even after the best explanations, |
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