“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“felicity. It’s simple math, though. Add up the pleasurable aspects of your life, then subtract the unpleasant ones. The result is your… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“In one study, psychologists Tim Wilson and Jonathan Schooler had participants listen to a piece of music, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Some… — 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
It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything. — 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
“Perhaps love and attention are really the same thing. One can’t exist without the other. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“."The Swiss are uptight and happy. The Thais are laid-back and happy. Icelanders find joy in their binge drinking, Moldovans only misery.… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Aristotle would clear up this moral confusion in an Athenian minute. Happiness, he believed, meant not only feeling good but doing good.… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Some 1,300 years later, the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre metaphorically spat on the notion of communal bliss by declaring, “Hell is other people.” — 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
“find yourself inexplicably joyful, do not panic. Remain calm and heed the advice of English humorist Jerome K. Jerome: “Don’t show [your… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Worst of all was Freud. While not technically a brooding philosopher, Freud did much to shape our views on happiness. He once… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“But Nozick did think long and hard about the relationship between hedonism and happiness. He once devised a thought experiment called the… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is not the belief of God that makes us happier but belief in something, anything. How else to explain the… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“However, I do spot this hand-painted sign, propped up by two pieces of wood on the side of the road. "When the… — 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
Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is something higher than happiness. Love is higher than happiness. Not only does love trump happiness, but in a competition… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Ruut Veenhoven, keeper of the database, got it right when he said: “Happiness requires livable conditions, but not paradise.” We humans are… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
