Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed. — 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… — 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
“Too often when we say we feel joyful, we’re really feeling manic. There is a frenetic nature to our joy, a whiff… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“The Scots studied the past to understand the present, and of course improve it. Like the ancient Greeks and the Chinese, they… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I would not have done anything differently. All of the moments in my life, everyone I have met, every trip I have… — 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
That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Hilmar owns many books, even by Icelandic standards. The other day, when he came home with a wheelbarrowful, his five-year-old daughter looked… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“They are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually, hedonic refugees have an… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Tuan is the great unheralded geographer of our time and a man whose writing has accompanied me throughout my journeys. He called… — 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
