Timeless Wisdom - The Problem of Happiness - Part 3

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 89 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.

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Dennis Prager tackles one of life’s most important—and misunderstood—pursuits: happiness. Drawing on philosophy, religion, and practical life experience, Dennis explores why so many people struggle to be happy, the common barriers that prevent it, and the choices we can make to live more fulfilling lives. Each lecture offers clear, actionable insights that will challenge assumptions, deepen understanding, and provide tools for cultivating lasting happiness.

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0:00.0	Dinesh D'Souza went into a war zone to make his new film, revealing never-before-seen footage of October 7th.
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0:19.9	October 6th and 8th. Streaming and DVDs available available October 9th all tickets and pre-orders at the Dragons Prophecy Film.com. The Dragons Prophecy Film.com. Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here, thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,
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0:50.9	They should have said,
0:53.2	it unhappiness comes
0:54.6	not from expecting too much
0:56.2	but from expecting too little
0:57.7	the only trouble is
0:59.5	they wouldn't say it because they know it's nonsense
1:01.4	because people who expect little
1:05.5	probably walk around
1:06.9	if they do it the right way
1:08.8	a lot happier
1:09.7	than people who expect a great deal.
1:14.0	That's the joke.
1:16.4	I'm going to talk about that when I explain what to do with expectations, which I have not yet.
1:22.5	But it's, I wish I were at that seminar.
1:28.3	Yes.
1:29.3	The expectations won and I'm going to start doing that and then go back to genes and the others
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