Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables… — 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
