Finding the Way to Happiness | Inspiring Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Listen to episode 665 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Way to Happiness | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The failure of many people to make a success of life is due to their blindness to the fact that living is an art, to be learned like any other art, adding skill to natural endowment until a masterful competency is attained. Most of us make meaningless daubs of our lives because we have not taught ourselves to live.
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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. |
| 1:00.4 | A man once came to me for advice. Life was going badly with him and he was in despair. |
| 1:07.4 | Yet as he told me his troubles, I cannot see that there was much that was worth discussing. |
| 1:13.4 | It was all intangible and vague. |
| 1:16.3 | The last I asked him, what is it that you really want? |
| 1:21.0 | He answered, I want to be happy, and I cannot find any way to happiness. |
| 1:27.3 | My father was a minister. I was taught that there |
| 1:30.7 | was happiness in living a religious life, in prayer, worship, and service. But I have not found it. |
| 1:39.0 | I want to be happy as a common cry, but only a small percentage of men and women desire happiness enough |
| 1:46.3 | to get it. They want it as they want a million dollars. They would be glad enough if someone |
| 1:52.6 | would bestow it on them, but they have not any intention of working hard enough, or practicing |
| 1:59.0 | self-denial enough to get it for themselves. |
| 2:02.6 | It is to be doubted if anything worth having can be gotten easily. |
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