Timeless Wisdom: Happiness Hour: Can You Change?

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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Philosophy, News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On Today's Show: Dennis Prager explores the concept of happiness and the importance of taking control of one's life. He discusses how the idea of being a victim can lead to bitterness and unhappiness, and how the New Year's resolution can be a powerful tool for change. Dennis shares stories of people who have overcome adversity, including a 69-year-old man who changed his political affiliation and a Holocaust survivor who radiates good cheer. He also delves into the idea of God as a co-pilot, and how believing in a higher power can bring happiness and fulfillment.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
0:04.2	Here thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,
0:08.7	and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles.
0:11.4	Go to Dennis Prager.com.
0:19.0	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour.
0:21.8	Yes, it is.
0:24.6	Hey, everybody, the happiness hour on the Dennis Prager show.
0:29.9	And I will bring it into the theme of the new year.
0:35.4	A happy New Year D, everybody, January 2, 2004, or 20-od-4, if you prefer.
0:43.8	Thanks for being with me. Every week at this hour, I devote to the subject of happiness.
0:48.7	I consider it to be one of the great, powerful ideas of life because happy people make the world better than
0:56.1	unhappy people do as a general rule.
0:58.1	There are some unhappy, good people, no question.
1:01.1	There is no question about that.
1:02.6	But as a general rule, the world is made better by happy people.
1:06.8	Not only macro, that is, in the larger sense, because it's hard to imagine people uh happy communists
1:14.4	happy Nazis happy uh terrorists you know they don't they don't strike you as among the happiest
1:22.4	of peoples the people who are happy don't want to hurt other people.
1:28.0	It's just, that's just the way it is.
1:29.6	It makes sense.
1:31.0	You want to, you want to spread happiness, not death.
1:34.9	It's pretty, pretty self-evident to me.
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