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Category Archives: Happiness
Spitting On Yom Kippur
In a March 10, 2009 lecture on Leviticus 19: 26-28, Dennis Prager said: When I was in yeshiva, a very very pious rabbi who on Yom Kippur was so careful not to drink that he would not even swallow his … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, leviticus 19, rabbi, saliva, yom kippur
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Don’t Enable The Unhappy
On his radio show Friday, Dennis Prager says: You out there who enable the chronically unhappy should feel awful because you are making your own lives miserable and you are enabling the miserable to stay miserable. Everybody does this. You … Continue reading
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Tagged bad moods, decent person, Dennis Prager, depression, eggshells, radio show, unhappiness, unhappy people, wonderful man
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You Have 30 Days To Say Something Nice To Me
I loved some of the calls to Dennis Prager’s happiness hour today. Tim from Van Nuys: “I dated a woman for about 13 years.” “I was trying to make her happy. I was in love with her.” “She didn’t want … Continue reading
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Tagged 13 years, Dennis Prager, phonies, ultimatum, van nuys
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Don’t Depend On A Single Source For Happiness
A caller to Dennis Prager’s radio show Friday, April 30, said: “A clear way to have happiness is to think of our life as a pier. Each pillar on that pier should give us happiness and sustain us. Each pillar … Continue reading
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Happiness
I’m reading Freedom to Change by Frank Pierce Jones, a professor of Classics at Brown University and a teacher of Alexander Technique. From page 42: Happiness is defined as “doing well something that interests you.” It can be seen at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, child at play, facial expression, physical improvement, routine activities, self satisfaction
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The Spiral Staircase Of Life
Psychiatrist Stephen Marmer was a guest on Dennis Prager’s radio show Friday. Dr. Marmer: “We work and rework all of the main challenges of development. Every time we do it, we can add to our happiness and reduce our unhappiness … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, developmental challenges, early adulthood, geriatric phase, spiral staircase
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How Do You Get Out Of A Bad Mood?
Dennis Prager on his radio show today: If you are in a bad mood, people have to walk on eggshells around you because they are thinking, if I say this, will it provoke an angry response? People clam up. If … Continue reading
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Tagged angry response, bad moods, cold shower, Dennis Prager, eggshells
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Dennis Prager’s Angry Female Caller
On his happiness hour Friday, Dennis Prager took a call from Connie in Sacramento. Connie: "People have a fundamental moral obligation to be real. That’s the problem in our culture right now. It’s the opposite of what you’re saying. Everybody … Continue reading
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Tagged critical change, Dennis Prager, gargle, happy all the time, moral obligation, quot
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You Get More Of What You Already Have
Gretchen Rubin writes: When you feel friendly, people want to be your friend. When you feel sexy, people are attracted to you. When you feel confident, others have confidence in you. This truth is cruel because so often, you want … Continue reading
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Tagged decisive element, goethe, gretchen rubin, personal approach, sunny day
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I’m An Adrenalin Junkie
I don’t drink or smoke or lend my bum to other blokes, but I have a weakness for sex, money and power, particularly when they’re combined in one alluring scenario with a secretary in a power suit, black fishnet stockings … Continue reading
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Tagged adrenalin junkie, adrenalin rush, Alexander Technique, black fishnet stockings, Dennis Prager, karate kid, new sheriff in town, power suit, sex money
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