Timeless Wisdom: Happiness Hour - The Source of Unhappiness
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On Today's Show: Dennis dives into the importance of understanding the root cause of unhappiness. He emphasizes that knowing why we're feeling unhappy is crucial to addressing it, just like knowing the source of a headache or illness is key to treating it. Dennis shares a simple yet powerful suggestion: ask yourself what's causing your unhappiness and imagine if that issue were resolved, would you be happy?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 0:04.2 | 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. |
| 0:13.4 | Thank you. I'm I'm I'm You're listening to the Dennis Prager show, and it is The Happiness Hour. |
| 0:57.6 | Here we go, everybody. |
| 0:59.5 | You thought I'd forget, didn't you? |
| 1:02.0 | It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. |
| 1:04.8 | Yes, it is. |
| 1:05.7 | It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. |
| 1:09.0 | Every week at this time, an hour devoted to happiness, come hell or high water, or even terrible political developments. |
| 1:17.8 | Doesn't matter. |
| 1:18.6 | Doesn't matter. |
| 1:19.2 | We talk about happiness. |
| 1:21.0 | Happy people make the world better and the unhappy don't. |
| 1:24.8 | It's as simple as that. |
| 1:25.9 | So you have a moral obligation to at least act as happy as possible. Everybody has unhappy feelings, but the issue is how you act and do you work on your happiness. You have a moral obligation to everyone in your life, first and foremost your spouse, but also your children, your parents, |
| 1:46.6 | your friends, your co-workers, the person you sit next to in an airplane, on an airplane, |
| 1:52.3 | you owe it to everybody to be as happy as possible. I don't mean delirious. I don't mean plastic |
| 1:59.5 | smiles all day, but I think you know what I mean. |
| 2:02.9 | Now, I have a subject today which may help you immensely. |
| 2:09.9 | Here it goes. |
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