Timeless Wisdom - The Problem of Happiness - Part 7
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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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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| 0:49.7 | House for your child may have a nature, a natural tendency to unhappiness should be a very real help to you. |
| 1:02.0 | That way, if it is you, you no longer have to walk around thinking life is dumping on you. |
| 1:09.0 | You no longer have to walk around thinking that people are hurting you |
| 1:12.3 | when they're not. And you can realize this is me and make peace more with a subdued you. You are |
| 1:18.9 | not happy, go lucky, Susan. Okay? That's the way it is. You are happy, go lucky Susan. Okay. |
| 1:25.4 | But that is, I believe it is of great, You are happy, go lucky, Susan. Okay. |
| 1:32.4 | That is, I believe it is of great help to people. |
| 1:37.5 | If your spouse is that way, you are not responsible for your spouse's happiness. |
| 1:39.0 | All right? |
| 1:45.9 | These are things I may have touched on in the beginning, and I feel very, I do get guilt feelings rarely, |
| 1:51.0 | but I do if I repeat myself in a course that people are taking with me. |
| 1:58.9 | So I don't want to embellish upon these ideas if they have already been something that you are familiar with. |
| 2:03.7 | But it is very important in this regard to know that we come out with different natures. Some kids come out one way, others come out another, also the |
| 2:09.9 | number of things that can work on us in any event in the course of our childhood or whatever, |
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