Dinesh D'Souza and another speaker praise Dennis Prager for keeping his faith and values after a disabling tragedy. They argue his resilience proves that if he can stay positive through severe hardship, you have no excuse for unhappiness. The lesson: take responsibility for your mood and look to Prager's example.
Wow, that is really remarkable. I mean, for most of us, the idea of being disabled in that way, it's hard to believe that you'd even be the same person. But what you're telling us is that Dennis is the same person and that he has brought his whole powerful religious and moral perspective to bear on his own experience, which is, as you said, the ultimate test of of an honest man.
You put it perfectly, absolutely perfectly. This is, as I said, he had a set of values, a set of principles that he brought, as it were, to this tragedy, and it has sustained him. His values have sustained him. And Dinesh, there is— and you'll be hearing them, as your audience will hear them eventually from Dennis Prager. There's a whole lot of lessons that Dennis is going to bring to the world that I think will help many, many people. And I'll say this as a kind of general statement to what we can all take away from this, and I've said this to a lot of people. Given what's happened to Dennis and given the fact that Dennis has been able to maintain his happiness level, If something goes wrong today in your day and you find yourself in a bad mood, you have no excuse but to pull yourself out of it. If Dennis can be happy in his state, you can be happy in your state, meaning the state of your health, the fact that you can walk around, the fact that tomorrow is truly another day with infinite possibilities. You can just look to Dennis and say, here is somebody who's managed to maintain a level of happiness and positivity under the worst circumstances. I have no excuse for not being a little bit happier today.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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