Timeless Wisdom - Happiness Hour: Unhappy Kids
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.
On Today’s Show: This Happiness Hour was recorded on November 2nd, 2004.
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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 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the Dennis. |
| 0:21.3 | Pregor show, The Happiness. Happiness Hour. |
| 0:26.4 | Every week at this time come Hello High Water, an hour devoted to the subject of happiness. |
| 0:33.7 | Because it's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. Yes, it is. It's the happy, happy happy hour yes it is it's the happy happy happy happy happy |
| 0:41.3 | happy and unlike the happy hour at your local bar tavern you don't need to you don't get |
| 0:47.8 | inebriated in fact if you're inebriated this hour will mean nothing to you and it's free |
| 0:53.0 | hi everybody the older i get the more importance not the less the more importance i attached this hour will mean nothing to you. And it's free. Hi, everybody. |
| 0:54.9 | The older I get, the more importance, not the less. |
| 0:57.2 | The more importance I attach to happiness, |
| 0:58.9 | happy people make the world better. |
| 1:00.4 | Unhappy people tend to make it worse. |
| 1:03.4 | And the happy have not suffered less than the unhappy as a general rule. |
| 1:08.0 | There are exceptions, but as a general rule, they haven't. |
| 1:11.8 | One of the things that the unhappy think is that the happy have suffered less. No, the happy have simply learned |
| 1:17.9 | that there was a moral obligation to be happy, or at least to act happy, in spite of the fact |
| 1:24.8 | that we suffer. Anyway, welcome to the show. |
| 1:28.0 | I ascribe tremendous importance to this subject. |
| 1:31.2 | That's the reason I have devoted an hour, probably for 10 years. |
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