The Power of Laughter & Cheerfulness
Published: June 16, 2026
Duration: 10:04
Listen to episode 1130 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Joyous people are not only the happiest, but the longest lived, the most useful and the most successful. A sense of humor, the love of fun in human nature, is a normal, natural lubricant which oils life's machinery, makes it run smoothly, and relieves that grinding of the bearings which prematurely wears away so many lives.
The 19th century women’s activist Lydia Maria Child used to say: "I think cheerfulness in...