The Power of Optimism to Transform Your Life
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 855 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Optimism to Transform Your Life. Adapted from the essay Optimism by Helen Keller.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I knew only darkness and stillness. Now I know hope and joy. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. Now I rejoice in the consciousness that I can think, act, and attain heaven here on earth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. |
| 1:16.9 | Thank you. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast. |
| 1:34.3 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the essay, |
| 1:38.3 | Optimism by Helen Keller, who despite being both deaf and blind, |
| 1:43.3 | lived a life of unbridled optimism and accomplishment. |
| 1:47.0 | Could we choose our environment, and were desire in human undertaking synonymous with endowment? |
| 2:00.0 | All people would, I suppose, |
| 2:03.4 | be optimists. Certainly most of us regard happiness as the proper end of all earthly enterprise. |
| 2:11.2 | The will to be happy animates every individual, no matter their profession, education, or social station. |
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