“Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“In the former Soviet republics, there are three staples of life: vodka, chocolate, and corruption. I know someone who once survived in… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“How we pursue the goal of happiness matters at least as much, perhaps more, than the goal itself. They are, in fact,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Culture is the sea we swim in - so pervasive, so all-consuming, that we fail to notice its existence until we step… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“In other words, where we are is vital to who we are. By “where,” I’m speaking not only of our physical environment… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“GDP doesn’t register, as Robert Kennedy put it, “the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, or the intelligence… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“For the English, life is about not happiness but muddling through, getting by. In that sense, they are like the ancient Aztecs.… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“bear. My armor dissolves. This is not happy India. This is the country where, as Mark Twain observed, every life is sacred,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“he believes it is, overall, a wiser approach to life’s problems. After all, how can you pick up something new—a new career,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Saying grace before a meal. Watching our breath. Repeating the ninety-nine names of Allah. Whirling like a dervish. Prayer. They all have… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“good life, the happy life, is connecting to something larger than ourselves, recognizing that we are not mere blips on the cosmic… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“This, I realize, is what life is like for most Thais. They are not in control of their fates. A terrifying thought,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“That pretty much describes the life of a foreign man living in Bangkok. Except instead of pressing a lever, he’s digging into… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“How, I wonder, staring out my hotel window into black nothingness, can Icelanders possibly be happy living under this veil of darkness?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“it is again: that Hindu belief that all of life is maya, illusion. Once we see life as a game, no more… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I would not have done anything differently. All of the moments in my life, everyone I have met, every trip I have… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Money sometimes buys happiness. You have to break it down, though. Money is a means to an end. The problem is when you think… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“My way of thinking is completely different,” he says. “I have no such mountains to scale; basically, I find that living itself is a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have" ... we experience flow,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“In a nutshell, Gross National Happiness seeks to measure a nation’s progress not by its balance sheet but rather by the happiness—or unhappiness—of its… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“Bhutan is the land of la. The monosyllabic word serves as all-purpose affirmation, honorific, and verbal tic. Mostly, it is a softener, appended to… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“He tells me of one American woman, forty-five years old, who was able to conceive only after being blessed by the Holy Dildo. That’s… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“Yes, but it doesn’t matter, Csíkszentmihalyi argues. Either way, we experience flow, a state of mind where we are so engaged in an activity… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. Maybe the current conditions in Switzerland .… — Eric Weiner Copy Share
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