“The British academic Richard Schoch, in his book The Secrets of Happiness, put it this way: “Your imagination must, to some extent,… — 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
“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
“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. Maybe the current conditions in… — 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
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
“Money sometimes buys happiness. You have to break it down, though. Money is a means to an end. The problem is when… — 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
“Envy, that enemy of happiness, is rife in Moldova. It’s an especially virulent strain, one devoid of the driving ambition that usually… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Only a fool or philosopher would make sweeping generalizations about the nature of happiness. I am no philosopher, so here goes: Money… — 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
“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
“The philosopher Alan Watts, were he alive today, would nod knowingly when told of that experiment. Watts once said, “Only bad music… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
