Timeless Wisdom: Happiness Hour - Life is Difficult for Everyone
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On Today's Show: Prager explores the importance of happiness and how it's a decision we make, not a feeling we receive. He discusses how people often rely on life's events to determine their happiness, but this approach can lead to unhappiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 0:04.3 | Hear 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. |
| 0:19.9 | It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. Yes, it is. It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. |
| 0:22.8 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:23.6 | It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. |
| 0:26.2 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:26.8 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:29.0 | This is it, no matter what, pretty much, no matter what. |
| 0:32.1 | We have the happiness hour on the Dennis Prager show every Friday at this time. |
| 0:41.0 | Because happiness is critical. |
| 0:42.8 | Yes, it is, my friends. |
| 0:45.8 | Don't think it is just a selfish pursuit. |
| 0:50.1 | If you get happy, you make people around you happier. |
| 0:53.3 | You have a moral duty to be happy. |
| 1:11.9 | That is correct. That is one of the insights in my book. Happiness is a serious problem, which I urge you to read. I know it sounds like an ad. I can live with that. What can I have no choice. I didn't spend 10 years so that nobody would read it, even though it became a bestseller. A lot of you haven't seen it. |
| 1:23.5 | That is what this show is based on, all of those years of talking about, lecturing on, thinking about working on, and a whole lifetime of working on being happy. |
| 1:29.4 | Now, today's subject is truly what I would call a back-to-basics. |
| 1:36.0 | I have over these years, and we are, by the way, now producing CDs of the best of the happiness hours. |
| 1:37.4 | I really hope, I really do, that each of these hours changes your life in some way. |
| 1:42.9 | That is how much weight I |
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