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Happiness Quotes by Eric Weiner

55 Happiness quotes by Eric Weiner

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A scientist says about 70 percent of happiness comes from relationships. Other quotes note that money can build walls and isolate us, while friends, family, and even a helpful office cleaner keep us connected. They also describe happiness as a kind of connective tissue that links our lives together.

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“Happiness doesn't require words.”

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

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

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“Thinking about happiness makes us less happy.”

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“Everyone has their own idea of happiness.”

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

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[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…

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

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

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

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“Some people don't want to be happy, and that's ok. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as…

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

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

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Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be…

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“The British academic Richard Schoch, in his book The Secrets of Happiness, put it this way: “Your imagination must, to some extent,…

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

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I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves,…

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“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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“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.…

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“Perhaps it is not the belief of God that makes us happier but belief in something, anything. How else to explain the…

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“The great thinkers have long pointed to a connection between creativity and happiness. "Happiness," Kant once said, "is an ideal not of…

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“felicity. It’s simple math, though. Add up the pleasurable aspects of your life, then subtract the unpleasant ones. The result is your…

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“In one study, psychologists Tim Wilson and Jonathan Schooler had participants listen to a piece of music, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Some…

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“Only a fool or philosopher would make sweeping generalizations about the nature of happiness. I am no philosopher, so here goes: Money…

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“Envy, that enemy of happiness, is rife in Moldova. It’s an especially virulent strain, one devoid of the driving ambition that usually…

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“That pretty much describes the life of a foreign man living in Bangkok. Except instead of pressing a lever, he’s digging into…

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

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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,…

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

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“The way Karma Ura sees it, a government is like a pilot guiding an airplane. In bad weather, it must rely on…

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

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

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“But Nozick did think long and hard about the relationship between hedonism and happiness. He once devised a thought experiment called the…

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“few weeks later, back in Miami, I spot a small news item. Thailand’s newly installed prime minister, Surayud Chulanont, the civilian face…

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“."The Swiss are uptight and happy. The Thais are laid-back and happy. Icelanders find joy in their binge drinking, Moldovans only misery.…

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“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.”

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“George Orwell was skeptical of this approach: “Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has a toothache and therefore…

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“Yes, there is something higher than happiness. Love is higher than happiness. Not only does love trump happiness, but in a competition…

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“Misery is like a gamy piece of meat: not particularly nourishing, certainly not tasty, but still it’s something to chew on, and…

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“For the English, life is about not happiness but muddling through, getting by. In that sense, they are like the ancient Aztecs.…

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

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“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…

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

“Everyone has their own idea of happiness.”