Inspirational Life Lessons for a Happy Life

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

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

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Listen to episode 1075 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons for a Happy Life. Adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Before you get up, clean out of your mind every feeling of your Rights, and see what kind of a day you will have. Don't try for more than one day, at first, for it will tax your forces. Old habits of thought will bring constant suggestions, that you are being abused, imposed upon, oppressed and devoured. Be patient. Put these ideas away. Try, just one day, to act on the theory that you have no rights at all.

Expect no gratitude when you help the poor. Look for no recognition when you accommodate a friend. Give up your seat in a crowded room. Step back and wait for others at the check-out counter. Require no attention from service staff, your children, or your spouse. Be a door-mat — it's only for one day.

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1:40.1	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane, published in 1916.
1:54.3	Leonardo's Mona Lisa was stolen by an Italian thief in 1911, and when she finally got back
2:06.5	to her place upon the walls of the Louvre two years later, all the world came to see her.
2:13.8	On the first day of her homecoming, some 20,000 visitors trooped by to have a look at the
2:20.3	most famous of paintings.
2:23.3	And there, with those placid hands upon her lap, she sat in her frame, regarding the passers-by
2:33.3	with her amused and superior smile, very much as you
2:38.7	would look upon the antics of your pet kitten.
2:43.2	Why worry, she seemed to say.
2:46.4	Here I am as you see.
2:49.3	I came back, of course, since it is written. It was destiny. All of us,
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