Eric Weiner

“Where you are is vital to who you are”

— Eric Weiner

“Happiness doesn't require words.”

— Eric Weiner

“Compassion arises spontaneously from wisdom.”

— Eric Weiner

“Everyone has their own idea of happiness.”

— Eric Weiner

Where we are is vital to who we are,

— Eric Weiner

“Paradise is a moving target.”

— Eric Weiner

“Ancestry is not destiny,”

— Eric Weiner

“Thinking about happiness makes us less happy.”

— Eric Weiner

“The problem with finding paradise is that others might find it, too.”

— Eric Weiner

“The roots of the word “compete” are the Latin competure, which means to “seek with.”

— Eric Weiner

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

— Eric Weiner

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

— Eric Weiner

“Recording life is a poor substitute for living it.”

— Eric Weiner

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

— Eric Weiner

“We need to a new word to describe Swiss happiness.”

— Eric Weiner

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

— Eric Weiner

“(It’s a good thing the gho is so handy, because all Bhutanese men are required to wear one during business hours. Bhutan…

— Eric Weiner

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence…

— Eric Weiner

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

— Eric Weiner

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

— Eric Weiner

What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a…

— Eric Weiner

People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go…

— Eric Weiner

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund…

— Eric Weiner

“is the root cause of sorrow but desire is also the root cause of action. How do we counter the paralysis of…

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We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier…

— Eric Weiner

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

“Being too American, or American at all, is pretty much the worst thing a Brit can be. “American” is synonymous with pushiness,…

— Eric Weiner

“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. Maybe the current conditions in…

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“Moldovans, most of whom will never be able to afford the products advertised—unless they sell a kidney. Joseph Epstein, in his book…

— Eric Weiner

“Another thing that Denis likes about Thailand is the concept of jai yen, cool heart. The worst thing one can do in…

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Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true,…

— Eric Weiner

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically,…

— Eric Weiner

“The Dutch will tolerate anything, even intolerance. In the past few decades they have welcomed, with open arms, immigrants from around the…

— Eric Weiner

“The philosopher Alan Watts, were he alive today, would nod knowingly when told of that experiment. Watts once said, “Only bad music…

— Eric Weiner

“The naturalist E. O. Wilson gave a name to this warm, fuzzy feeling I’m experiencing: biophilia. He defined it as “the innately…

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“Most of all, we love a good study. Newscasters know instinctively that the best way to get people’s ears to perk up…

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The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places,…

— Eric Weiner

“Jared, in other words, displays all of the symptoms of someone who has “gone native”—the term used to describe foreign correspondents, diplomats,…

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“I read, and underline, anything I can get my hands on, but I have a particular weakness for self-help books. I love…

— Eric Weiner

“A neighbor had a banana tree that had grown so fulsomely that it extended onto Kunip’s property. Insects attached to the banana…

— Eric Weiner