Nine Tips for a Happier Life | Inspirational Life Lessons
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 809 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Nine Tips for a Happier Life. Adapted from Helps to Happiness by the Reverend N. B. Cooksey.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Gratitude is a due appreciation of favors received, and is an important help to happiness. There are two reasons why gratitude is necessary to human happiness: one is internal and the other is external. If we are not grateful for favors bestowed, it shows a littleness, and lack of character, that will destroy self-respect and produce a certain degree of self-condemnation.
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| 0:02.6 | Who's that man in your life? |
| 0:04.5 | The one you're grateful for. |
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| 0:45.5 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 0:48.6 | Helps to Happiness by the Reverend N.B. Cooksey, published in 1916. |
| 1:03.2 | Everyone wishes to be happy. |
| 1:06.4 | That is the one thing upon which all can agree. |
| 1:18.6 | Unfortunately, much of our effort to become happy is lost, because it is made in the wrong way, and happiness is expected where it never can be attained. |
| 1:22.6 | So let me share with you nine helps to happiness, which are guaranteed to set you upon a joyful |
| 1:29.3 | path in life. |
| 1:31.3 | Number 1. |
| 1:33.3 | Ambition |
| 1:35.3 | One of the world's greatest mistakes is that of supposing that complete happiness can be found |
| 1:41.3 | in the attainment of some one thing, whereas the helps to happiness |
| 1:46.2 | are numerous. Women and men are compound beings, possessing physical, intellectual, and spiritual |
| 1:54.9 | natures, each of which have many wants which must be supplied if we are to be happy. |
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