Thoughtfulness & Living a Life of Love
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Listen to episode 531 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Thoughtfulness & Living a Loving Life. Edited and adapted from Young People’s Problems by J.R. Miller.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the finest things in a complete, well-rounded character is thoughtfulness. It gives a wondrous charm to your life. It makes you a benediction wherever you go. It tempers all your conduct, softening all natural harshness into gentleness, and giving to your every word and act, and to all your bearing, a spirit of kindliness.
A thoughtful person does not have to be asked to help others — they help, as it were, instinctively. They are ever ready to do the obliging thing, to say the encouraging word, to show an interest in the life of others, to perform those countless little kindnesses which so brighten the common pathway.
The thoughtful person does not make their life an offence or irritation to others. They never meddle with other people’s affairs, but respects the individuality and the rights of everyone. They curb their curiosity, and do not pry into matters of which they have no right to know.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Get all three of our e-books with 150 life lessons for only 999 by visiting inspirational life lessons.com. |
| 0:28.1 | They also are available in paperback at Amazon and in hardcover. Learn more at inspirational |
| 0:36.3 | life lessons.com. |
| 0:39.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Young People's Problems by J.R. Miller, published in 1898. |
| 0:52.3 | One of the finest things in a complete, well-rounded character is thoughtfulness. |
| 0:59.0 | It gives a wondrous charm to your life. |
| 1:03.0 | It makes you a benediction wherever you go. |
| 1:07.0 | It tempers all your conduct, softening all natural harshness into gentleness, and giving to your every word and act, and to all your bearing, a spirit of kindliness. |
| 1:21.7 | A thoughtful person does not have to be asked to help others. They help, as it were, instinctively. They are ever ready |
| 1:30.7 | to do the obliging thing, to say the encouraging word, to show an interest in the life of others, |
| 1:38.8 | to perform those countless little kindnesses which so brighten the common pathway. |
| 1:46.5 | The thoughtful person does not make their life an offense or irritation to others. |
| 1:52.5 | They never meddle with other people's affairs, but respect the individuality and the rights of everyone. |
| 2:08.6 | They curb their curiosity, and do not pry into matters of which they have no right to know. They are careful not to touch others at sensitive points. |
| 2:13.6 | If anyone has a physical feature which is marred, they are careful in conversation never to refer to it, |
| 2:22.0 | and seem never to notice it, or to be conscious of it. |
| 2:27.5 | Thoughtfulness reveals itself quite as much in what it does not do as in the things it does. |
| 2:38.6 | Many people make their very goodness so intrusive as to do harm, and thus give pain to those they would help. They are too anxious to be helpful. |
| 2:46.8 | They intrude upon others, pressing their very offers of kindness upon them in ways which |
| 2:53.6 | become, if not offensive and impertinent, at least burdensome. |
| 2:59.6 | When their friends are in sorrow, they are sincerely eager to give comfort, but they fail |
| 3:06.9 | to understand the sacredness of grief, or to respect the |
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