The Path of Cheerfulness | Happiness Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 679 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Path of Cheerfulness | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The influence that a cheerful person has on others is almost limitless. You probably have known people within whose company you felt uplifted, amiable and hopeful, equal to anything! I do not know a more enviable gift than the energy to sway others to good; to diffuse around others an atmosphere of cheerfulness, generosity, magnanimity. It is not a matter of great talent; nor entirely a matter of great energy; but rather of earnestness and honesty — a quiet, constant energy which is like soft rain gently penetrating the soil.
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| 0:58.5 | edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop, |
| 1:06.4 | published in 1890. |
| 1:12.4 | God bless the cheerful person, old or young, handsome or homely. |
| 1:19.1 | Over and above every other personality trait stands cheerfulness. |
| 1:24.1 | What the sun is to nature, what the stars are tonight, are cheerful people in the house and by the wayside. |
| 1:33.3 | Many recognize the magic of a cheerful woman more quickly than even enslaving beauty, |
| 1:40.0 | and women recognize the same magic in the cheerful man. |
| 1:47.0 | We are cheerful and contented. |
| 1:49.5 | All nature smiles with us. |
| 1:52.1 | The air seems more balmy. |
| 1:54.1 | The sky more clear. |
| 1:56.7 | The ground has a brighter green. |
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