The Happiness Secret No One Wants to Admit
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom, Dennis Prager explores the connection between happiness and goodness. He argues that not only do happy people do more good, but the people who do more good are also happier. Dennis delves into the idea that treating others decently and being kind can increase one's happiness, and that this is a moral obligation. He also discusses the importance of behavior over feelings, citing examples of people who act good despite having impure insides. This thought-provoking conversation challenges listeners to reevaluate their priorities and consider the impact of their actions on their own happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Your dog and a stranger are drowning. |
| 0:02.7 | You can only save one. |
| 0:04.1 | Who do you choose? |
| 0:04.9 | Dennis Prager says your answer reveals everything about how you define right and wrong. |
| 0:09.9 | In his new book, If There Is No God, Pringer exposes the danger of emotion-based morality. |
| 0:15.8 | And why, without objective truth, society descends into chaos. |
| 0:19.6 | This isn't a religious book. It's a rational case for |
| 0:22.4 | moral clarity in a confused age. If there is no God from Dennis Prager, order now at Prager's store.com. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, |
| 0:36.7 | courses, and classic radio programs, and |
| 0:38.8 | to purchase Dennis Prager's rational Bibles. |
| 0:41.4 | Go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 0:48.9 | On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom. |
| 0:52.7 | As a rule, as a rule, there are many exceptions to this rule, but as a rule, you get |
| 0:59.6 | treated back the way you treat people. |
| 1:03.9 | And that will increase your happiness. |
| 1:07.2 | By and large, if you treat people decently, you will be treated decently. |
| 1:12.6 | And if you think that you are going through life getting shafted by everybody, |
| 1:17.0 | there is something probably a little wrong in your perception. |
| 1:22.0 | That's coming up on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 1:25.4 | And it starts right now. |
| 1:27.2 | You have no idea how many of you write to me that starts right now. You have no idea. |
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