“My way of thinking is completely different,” he says. “I have no such mountains to scale; basically, I find that living itself is a struggle, and if I’m satisfied, if I have just done that, lived well, in the evening… — 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 it is an end in itself. Happiness is relationships, and people in the west think money is needed for relationships. But it's not. It comes down to trustworthiness." I'd heard the same thing in Switzerland. Trust… — 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 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
