True Optimism for a Happy Life | Happiness Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 571 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: True Optimism for a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.
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Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Optimism is the sunshine of the soul in action. It is sturdy confidence that right must triumph, united to tireless courage to make it triumph. Optimism is the finest weapon in the armory of the individual. It unifies all the undaunted virtues of your strength into a force and inspiration. It means fighting for, or with, the battalions of right, love, justice, and truth — with a determination to win.
True optimism is something more than a continuous performance of hope. It is the joy of living — made an actual fact. It means seeking the best, living the best, doing the best. It means focusing all that is highest in our character to meet conditions.
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| 1:50.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, |
| 1:58.0 | published in 1909. |
| 2:07.6 | Optimism is the sunshine of the soul in action. |
| 2:13.8 | It is true religion as a living, compelling fact, not a mere theory. |
| 2:21.5 | It is sturdy confidence that right must triumph. United to tireless courage to make it triumph. Optimism is the finest weapon in the armory of the individual. It unifies all the |
| 2:29.2 | undaunted virtues of your strength into a force and inspiration. |
| 2:35.3 | It means fighting for, or with, the battalions of right, love, justice, and truth, |
| 2:43.1 | with a determination to win. |
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