The Bright Side of Life | Guide for a Rational Optimist

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

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

4.0 • 805 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Listen to episode 77 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Bright Side of Life (Guide for a Rational Optimist). Edited and adapted from Character Building by Booker T. Washington. Educational Podcast Excerpt: If you want to be happy, if you want to live a contented life, if you want to live a life of genuine pleasure, do something for somebody else. When you feel unhappy, disagreeable, and miserable, go to someone else who is miserable and do that person an act of kindness, and you will find that you will be made happy. The miserable persons in this world are the ones whose hearts are narrow and hard; the happy ones are those who have great big hearts. Such persons are always happy. Now, this is not to say, you won’t have difficulties, nor face obstacles and discouragement. You most certainly will. But I would suggest to you that such difficulties, as an element in life, are for a purpose. I do not believe that anything, any element of your lives, is put there without a purpose. I believe that every effort that we are obliged to make to overcome obstacles gives us strength, and also a confidence in ourselves that nothing else can give us. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:43.5	Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from
1:46.6	Character Building by Booker T. Washington, published in 1902.
1:56.5	There are quite a number of divisions into which life can be divided, but for the purposes
2:06.6	of today's talk, I am going to speak with you of two, the bright side of life and the dark side.
2:15.4	In thought, in talk, in action, I think you will find that you can separate life into
2:21.6	these two divisions, the dark side and the bright side, the discouraging side and the encouraging
2:28.6	side. You will find too that there are two classes of people. There is one class that is schooling
2:36.2	itself and constantly training itself to look upon the dark side of life. And there is another
2:43.4	class made of people who are consciously or unconsciously constantly training themselves to
2:50.7	look upon the bright side of life.
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