Summary: <p>Listen to episode 174 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Happiness: The Advantage of Marriage & A Happy Home. Edited and Adapted from Marriage: a Lifelong Honeymoon by Bernarr Macfadden.</p><br> <p><strong>Inspirational Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>Without a home, there can be no true happiness for a man or a woman. No matter how completely one’s ambitions may have been satisfied, we are still an outcast, a vagrant, until we have a home of our own. We cannot know or feel the real, exalted, satisfying happiness that is supposed to come to a human being at some time of their life until independent home conditions are brought into existence. </em></p><br> <p><em>All boys and girls, as they approach maturity, yearn first of all for happy homes of their own. They may change after maturity; unhealthy environments may pervert their true nature, but if left to the dictates of their inner selves, they will grow up yearning more and more for this first essential element of life’s happiness. </em></p><br> <p><em>The home is the foundation of all that is good, true, and exalted. It is the foundation of civilization; if it falls and disappears from society, with it must go all that is best in human life. Within the home, you will find the culmination of all your social, physical and spiritual yearnings. It is the home that brings out all that is best and true and noble in human character. </em></p><br> <p><em>True happiness, therefore, cannot be found outside the realm of home life. It encircles the true home like a halo; it cannot be found anywhere else. I admit that home and happiness rarely go together in the present unhealthy state of civilization. But this is not the fault of the home. It is the fault of those who try ineffectually to make the home.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="Forgiveness" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/forgiveness-the-key-to-freedom-happiness/">The Key to Freedom & Happiness</a></p><br> <p><a title="How to Be Happy" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/the-secret-of-happiness/">The Secret of Happiness</a></p>
