How to Build a Happy Life | Happiness Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 898 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let us make the most of our one chance, and not spoil it by any folly or cruelty. How pleasant it will be, as we draw near the goal, if we can look back and realize that though the way was very steep and rough for us in some places, and though it traversed at times a landscape that was all devoid of loveliness, yet, as we passed along, we scattered the seeds of tender words, and helpful deeds, that even now have grown into a carpet of greenery to soften the path for others, and a border of blossoms to cheer them with its beauty.
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson, published in 1903. |
| 1:49.9 | Most of us have our ideal of what we ought to be, |
| 1:54.3 | what we want to be, and what, in the main, we are really trying to be. |
| 2:01.1 | But from time to time, in a thoughtless mood, or under the stress of an unexpected temptation, |
| 2:09.4 | we do things contrary to our general purpose and usual tenor of our lives. |
| 2:15.8 | Then comes remorse, the renewal of a right resolve and effort, and so, |
| 2:22.1 | when better deeds are done, the recovery of our self-respect. But this experience should not |
| 2:29.7 | be confined to ourselves, it should be extended to others, because whatever justifies us, in condoning |
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