Our Duty to Be Happy | Happiness Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 1024 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Our Duty to Be Happy. Edited and adapted from the book Happiness by Hugh Black, published in 1911.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.
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| 1:11.3 | Welcome to the inspirationalirational Living podcast. |
| 1:28.6 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from the book Happiness by Hugh Black, |
| 1:35.4 | published in 1911. |
| 1:43.4 | If it can be said with any truth that we have a right to be happy, this right can also |
| 1:52.0 | be stated as a duty, a duty to others, as well as ourselves. |
| 1:59.8 | The mere exercise and cultivation of any faculty is a source of pleasure, and such cultivation |
| 2:09.0 | is surely also a duty, unless it conflicts with some still higher duty. |
| 2:16.8 | There is a common notion among many people that duty is precisely what we do not like. |
| 2:24.3 | If we are in any doubt, they say that the safe rule is to find out what will be pleasant, |
| 2:31.3 | and then do the opposite. |
| 2:33.3 | It is true that duty often asks for sacrifice |
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