Building Your Bench of Happiness
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this Happiness Hour of Timeless Wisdom, Dennis Prager explores the importance of having multiple sources of happiness. He discusses how relying on just one thing, even if it's something wonderful like a spouse or a job, can be a recipe for disaster. Dennis shares a sports analogy, comparing happiness to a team's bench, emphasizing the need for a deep bench to ensure happiness even when the starting players are unavailable. He also delves into the idea that even God alone is not enough to bring happiness, and that people need multiple sources of joy to be truly fulfilled.
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| 0:00.0 | We live in a time where the moment you question the narrative you're told to stop thinking and start complying. |
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| 0:27.9 | these films today. Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Hear thousands of hours |
| 0:35.3 | of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, and to purchase Dennis Prager's rational Bibles, go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 0:47.3 | On today's episode of timeless wisdom. |
| 0:51.3 | For me, my complete happiness comes from God. |
| 0:55.9 | Now, it isn't that it isn't added to by my wife, my kids. |
| 0:59.3 | Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. |
| 1:00.6 | Then it isn't your complete happiness. |
| 1:02.5 | God alone is the source of all my happiness. |
| 1:05.3 | The source is not the same as the whole. |
| 1:07.7 | That's coming up on timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 1:11.0 | And it starts right now. |
| 1:13.6 | It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. |
| 1:16.3 | Yes, it is. |
| 1:18.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:19.5 | Welcome to The Happiness Hour on the Dennis Prager show. |
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