Eric Weiner

“The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.”

— Eric Weiner

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

— Eric Weiner

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

— Eric Weiner

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

— Eric Weiner

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

— Eric Weiner

“Religion is like a knife. If you use it the wrong way you can cut yourself.”

— Eric Weiner

“The narrator, in a voice-of-God tenor, explains the experiment.”

— Eric Weiner

“happiness is just around the corner. The trick is finding the right corner.”

— Eric Weiner

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only…

— Eric Weiner

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when…

— Eric Weiner

Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy…

— Eric Weiner

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

— Eric Weiner

“Hilmar operates at the level of the sublime. The quotidian—parking his car, paying his bills—doesn’t interest Hilmar at all. So invariably he…

— Eric Weiner

“Mungkin beginilah pencerahan didapatkan. Setetes demi setetes, hingga tak terasa ember kita telah terisi penuh.”

— Eric Weiner

“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”

— Eric Weiner

[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

“Hinduism—indeed, most eastern religions—tells us that striving, even striving for happiness, is self-defeating. The moment you try to improve yourself, you’ve failed.…

— Eric Weiner

“My favorite theory is one I call the Get-Along-or-Die Theory. In warm places, this theory states, life is too easy; your next…

— Eric Weiner

“Emma has just returned from a visit to her factory. On the floor, she has spread piles of bags. They are everywhere,…

— Eric Weiner

“Getting someone behind the wheel of a car is like putting them into deep hypnosis; their true self comes out. In vehicle…

— Eric Weiner

“Ask yourself if you are happy and you cease to be so.” That was John Stuart Mill, the nineteenth-century British philosopher who…

— Eric Weiner

“Bhutan is the land of la. The monosyllabic word serves as all-purpose affirmation, honorific, and verbal tic. Mostly, it is a softener,…

— Eric Weiner

The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases…

— Eric Weiner

“It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have" ... we…

— Eric Weiner

“Rule number one: wear loose clothing. No Problem. Rule number two: no alcohol for the next three days. Slight problem. I'll miss…

— Eric Weiner

“In the late 1960s, a young Martin Seligman, now the pooh-bah of the positive-psychology movement, conducted experiments with dogs. He would place…

— Eric Weiner

“it is again: that Hindu belief that all of life is maya, illusion. Once we see life as a game, no more…

— Eric Weiner

“Tuan is the great unheralded geographer of our time and a man whose writing has accompanied me throughout my journeys. He called…

— Eric Weiner

The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a…

— Eric Weiner

“And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in…

— Eric Weiner

“Worst of all was Freud. While not technically a brooding philosopher, Freud did much to shape our views on happiness. He once…

— Eric Weiner

“Yes, but it doesn’t matter, Csíkszentmihalyi argues. Either way, we experience flow, a state of mind where we are so engaged in…

— Eric Weiner

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.

— Eric Weiner

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

— Eric Weiner

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

— Eric Weiner

“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.”

— Eric Weiner

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.

— Eric Weiner

“Culture is the sea we swim in - so pervasive, so all-consuming, that we fail to notice its existence until we step…

— Eric Weiner

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they…

— Eric Weiner

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback.…

— Eric Weiner