Inspirational Life Lessons on Happiness
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Listen to episode 739 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons on Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every deed you perform, in order to be beautiful, in order to be a help to happiness, must be done "in its time"; that is, in the part of the busy day to which it properly belongs. Say to yourself, “Every day, at such and such specified times, I will do this and that — activities which exercise my body, feed my mind, nourish my soul, and complete the work that needs to be done.”
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| 1:37.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson, published in 1903. |
| 1:51.0 | Most of us have our ideal of what we ought to be, what we want to be, and what, in the main, we are really trying to be. But from time to time, |
| 2:05.9 | in a thoughtless mood, or under the stress of an unexpected temptation, we do things contrary to |
| 2:14.1 | our general purpose and usual tenor of our lives. Then comes remorse, the renewal |
| 2:21.2 | of a right resolve and effort, and so, when better deeds are done, the recovery of our self-respect. |
| 2:30.3 | But this experience should not be confined to ourselves, it should be extended to others, |
| 2:37.0 | because whatever justifies us in condoning our own faults demands that we pardon their offenses as well. |
| 2:46.0 | For the sake of our character and soul, we cannot afford to hold a grudge. |
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