The Key to Happiness | Inspirational Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Listen to episode 1076 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Simple Life by Charles Wagner, published in 1901.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: DO you find life enjoyable these days? For my part, on the whole, it seems rather depressing, and I fear that my opinion is not altogether personal. As I observe the lives of my contemporaries, and listen to their talk, I find myself unhappily confirmed of the opinion that they do not get much pleasure out of things. And certainly it is not from lack of trying; but it must be acknowledged that their success is meager.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. I've started a few small businesses over the years, including this podcast, and the situation is always the same. Every day another and task pops up and your to-do list is never ending. |
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| 1:40.0 | Today's podcast was edited and adapted from The Simple Life by Charles Wagner, published in |
| 1:46.5 | 1901. |
| 1:51.2 | Do you find life enjoyable these days? |
| 1:59.3 | For my part, on the whole, it seems rather depressing, and I fear that |
| 2:04.9 | my opinion is not altogether personal. As I observe the lives of my contemporaries and |
| 2:12.6 | listen to their talk, I find myself unhappily confirmed of the opinion that they do not get much pleasure |
| 2:19.8 | out of things. |
| 2:21.5 | And certainly it is not from lack of trying, but it must be acknowledged that their success is |
| 2:28.2 | meager. |
| 2:30.4 | Where can the fault be? |
| 2:33.1 | Some accuse politics or business. |
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