Cheerfulness: The Benefits of Smiling & Laughing
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Listen to episode 34 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Cheerfulness: The Benefits of Smiling and Laughing. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden.
Podcast Excerpt: No matter what your work may be, learn to find happiness everywhere. The love of cheerfulness can be cultivated like any other faculty — and in practical life, it will be worth more to you than a college education with-out it. This is wealth that all can accumulate — the wealth of joy. No matter how hard your lot, how dark the day may seem, if you work a little good humor into it, it will lift your life above a humdrum existence.
If you manage to get in a good laugh during the day, your work will not seem nearly as hard. It will relieve the grind and dreariness. A dull, serious mood all day will not only make you very uninteresting to others, but it makes your own load heavier. A good laugh does away with cares, worries, doubts, and relieves the great strain of modern life....
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| 1:41.3 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book, The Optimistic Life by |
| 1:46.1 | Orson Sweat Martin, published in 1907. |
| 2:00.0 | When writer Edith Wyatt was a student at Brynmore College, she was known as the girl in the cheering up business. |
| 2:08.5 | Home sick students, discouraged students, students who were behind in their studies, weary students, went to her for a bit of brightness and encouragement, and always found it. |
| 2:20.1 | She radiated mental sunshine from every poor. |
| 2:24.2 | There is a great opening in the cheering-up business, plenty of room for everybody, and it |
| 2:28.9 | does not interfere with any other calling. |
| 2:32.2 | One may do more good in it than in one's regular vocation. |
| 2:37.0 | Somehow these cheerful people have the power of unlocking the faculties, loosening the tongue, |
| 2:42.3 | to make us speak with the gift of prophecy. These sunshine characters are health promoters. |
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