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Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's reading is edited and adapted from the work of David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford University.

Among the inalienable rights of Americans, as history has taught us, are these three,

life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

So long as we are alive and free, we will, in one way or another, seek that which gives us pleasure. Hence life, liberty, and the pursuit

of happiness are in essence the same. But the pursuit of happiness is an art in itself. To seek

it is not necessarily to find it, and failure may destroy both liberty and life.

Of some phases of this pursuit, I wish to speak today. My message is an old one. If by good

chance some part of it is true, this truth is as old as life itself.

And if it may be true, it is a message that needs to be repeated many times to each generation

of citizens.

It is one of the laws of life that each acquisition has its cost.

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