How Proportion Helps Create Happiness

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Listen to episode 931 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How Proportion Helps Create Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Proportion ministers to happiness because it preserves us from pessimism. Pessimism is an exaggeration of the evil of the world. It is the easiest of fallacies. Evil impresses the imagination deeper than good. It is commonly more dramatic, more interesting. That is why the first page of the morning paper is filled with the stories of yesterday's crimes and murders.

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0:45.9	Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges, published in 1906.
1:03.0	Last time, I talked with you about determination and regulation as helps to happiness.
1:16.6	The third quality which will assist you to be happy is proportion. By proportion I mean a true perspective.
1:20.6	Proportion ministers to happiness,
1:23.6	because it restrains us from the exaggeration of excitement. They who lack it are
1:31.2	like newspapers which have used up all their biggest type on screaming bulletins of petty fights
1:38.6	and hysterical gossip, and have nothing larger for a battle which is determining the destiny of nations.
1:47.0	It is well to distinguish between a scratch and a surgical operation.
1:53.0	It is well to save our supreme emotions for supreme events.
1:59.0	I do not mean an unnatural repression of feeling or of speech,
2:04.7	but the truth is that great joys and sorrows come but seldom.
2:10.1	So let us not get excited every common day.
2:14.1	Let us reserve some stirrings of the heart
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