How to Smile at Life | Happiness Podcasts

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

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

4.0 • 805 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Listen to episode 835 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Smile at Life | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Creed of the Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Do you know those who smile at life? Have you wondered how they do it? Have you wanted to be one of them?

How refreshing it is (after listening to those who believe that the world is growing worse) to find the person who rejoices to be alive! ....

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0:45.9	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Creed of the Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1931.
1:03.5	Do you know those who smile at life?
1:07.6	Have you wondered how they do it?
1:10.1	Have you wanted to be one of them? How refreshing it is, after listening to those who believe that the world is growing worse, to find the person who rejoices to be alive. After seeing someone who thinks that the world owes them a living, how delightful
1:30.3	to find the woman and man who seeks to contribute generously to the world's happiness.
1:40.3	Those who frown at life believe that the persons, things, and events of life, have the power
1:47.8	to make them unhappy.
1:50.6	They feel that the world is upon their shoulders, and that its woes are depressing them.
1:57.9	Their philosophy of life is very simple. The world is all wrong.
2:03.6	However, those who smile at life see mirrored in the world the smile of their own contented hearts.
2:12.6	Is it any wonder that they smile? The light within them shines to the very circumference of their world
2:22.3	and makes it one of joy and brightness.
2:26.3	Those who smile at life can rightly do so because they have mastered life.
2:33.3	It no longer has power to defeat and crush them.
2:38.6	It must dance at their bidding.
2:41.7	It must sing its happiest song for them.
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