Traveling Your Road to Happiness
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 781 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Traveling Your Road to Happiness. Edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To each thinking adult come hours of discouragement, depression, and despair. Were it not so, we would never seek to right the wrongs that exist all about us. But it is possible to build our characters, develop our abilities, and discipline our moods, so that we can attain an integrated personality which no change of fortune can permanently affect.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
| 0:06.0 | businesses like Magic Spoon and Mattel, who sell through the roof, you probably attribute |
| 0:12.2 | their success to great products and a strong brand. But an often overlooked secret is actually |
| 0:18.0 | the business behind the business, the one which makes selling and buying simple. |
| 0:23.4 | For millions of retail businesses, that business is Shopify. |
| 0:29.6 | Nobody does selling better than Shopify, because no checkout system is better at converting |
| 0:35.8 | shoppers into buyers. With Shopify, you can sell wherever |
| 0:40.3 | your customers are a scrolling or strolling, on the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere |
| 0:48.7 | in between. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout that Magic Spoon and Mattel use. |
| 0:55.6 | Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com |
| 1:00.3 | slash inspirational. |
| 1:03.4 | All lowercase. |
| 1:05.3 | Go to Shopify.com slash inspirational to upgrade your selling today. |
| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:35.6 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hagen Rice, published in 1942. |
| 1:52.3 | From the dawn of civilization, humanity has been following a trail whose end is ever lost in the heights. |
| 2:01.6 | Stumbling, falling, and fighting, people have struggled valiantly on in the quest of happiness. |
| 2:10.6 | Each generation and race has sought after it in their own fashion, |
| 2:15.6 | and each has found it for brief seasons, only to lose |
| 2:20.3 | it again. Egypt built great tombs for its dead to enjoy through eternity. Greece tried to discover |
| 2:28.1 | happiness in the pursuit of beauty and truth. India sought to capture it by the suppression of all desire. Some philosophers have taught |
| 2:38.4 | that moderation is the secret of happiness. Others that giving reign the pleasures of the senses |
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