Summary: <p>Listen to episode 197 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Arthur Schopenhauer: Quotes, Wisdom & Philosophy Talk. Adapted from A Multitude of Counsellors by J.N. Larned.</p><br> <p><strong>Self-Help Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>The most general survey shows us that the two foes of happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the other. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent oscillation between the two. Needy surroundings and poverty produce pain; while, if we are more than well off, we are bored. Nothing is so good a protection as inward wealth, the wealth of the mind, because the greater it grows the less room it leaves for boredom. . . . </em></p><br> <p><em>The conclusion we come to is that the individual whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest. Men and women of inner wealth want nothing from outside but the gift of undisturbed leisure, to develop and mature their intellectual faculties, that is, to enjoy their wealth. In short, they want permission to be themselves, their whole life long, every day and every hour. . . . </em></p><br> <p><em>The value we set upon the opinion of others, and our constant endeavor in respect of it, are each quite out of proportion to any result we may reasonably hope to attain; so that this attention to other people's attitude may be regarded as a kind of universal mania which everyone inherits. In all we do, almost the first thing we think about is, what will people say; and nearly half the troubles and bothers of life may be traced to our anxiety on this score. . . .</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Self-Help Podcasts</strong>:</p><br> <p><a title="Poor Richard's Almanack" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/ben-franklins-wisdom-poor-richards-almanack/">Ben Franklin's Wisdom</a></p><br> <p><a title="The Wisdom of Confucius" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/confucius-wisdom-the-best-quotes-sayings/">Confucious: Best Quotes & Sayings</a></p>
