Timeless Wisdom: Happiness Hour - Will This Make Me Happier?
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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On Today's Show: Prager explores the importance of happiness and how it can be achieved. He discusses the idea that people often prioritize immediate pleasure over long-term happiness and proposes a simple yet profound question: "Will this make me happier?"
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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. |
| 0:19.5 | La La La La La La La La La La La La La |
| 0:21.1 | Now is for Janine |
| 0:22.2 | Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. |
| 0:26.3 | It's the Happiness Hour on the Dennis Prager show. |
| 0:29.8 | Yes, everybody, it is a very, very important thing, happiness. |
| 0:35.1 | Not just because it feels good. |
| 0:37.0 | No, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:39.0 | Happy people do a lot more good for this world than the unhappy. |
| 0:42.7 | All right, let's be clear about that. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm sorry if you're unhappy that I'm saying this. |
| 0:47.3 | I really am. |
| 0:48.4 | But that means that you have a moral obligation to be as happy as you can be. |
| 0:52.7 | It is not a selfish pursuit happiness. It can but it isn't it's good for the world it's good for |
| 0:59.6 | everyone around you to be as happy as you can be it's an achievement |
| 1:06.5 | happiness it's an art that's why I devote an hour here. The world is better when people are happier. |
| 1:13.0 | Not only are you happier, the world is a happier place. |
| 1:17.3 | This is not a cliche, folks, because people don't think that way. |
| 1:20.2 | They think of happiness. |
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