Eric Weiner

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.

— Eric Weiner

“Money sometimes buys happiness. You have to break it down, though. Money is a means to an end. The problem is when…

— Eric Weiner

“My way of thinking is completely different,” he says. “I have no such mountains to scale; basically, I find that living itself…

— Eric Weiner

“Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers,…

— Eric Weiner

“It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have" ... we…

— Eric Weiner

“In a nutshell, Gross National Happiness seeks to measure a nation’s progress not by its balance sheet but rather by the happiness—or…

— Eric Weiner

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence…

— Eric Weiner

What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a…

— Eric Weiner

“Bhutan is the land of la. The monosyllabic word serves as all-purpose affirmation, honorific, and verbal tic. Mostly, it is a softener,…

— Eric Weiner

“He tells me of one American woman, forty-five years old, who was able to conceive only after being blessed by the Holy…

— Eric Weiner

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

— Eric Weiner

“The narrator, in a voice-of-God tenor, explains the experiment.”

— Eric Weiner

“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

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

— Eric Weiner

“Everyone has their own idea of happiness.”

— Eric Weiner

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

— Eric Weiner

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

— Eric Weiner

“Where you are is vital to who you are”

— Eric Weiner

“Ancestry is not destiny,”

— Eric Weiner

“And so I do. I have inter course, right there in the Hotel van Walsum dining room. I enjoy it very much,…

— Eric Weiner

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

— Eric Weiner

So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables…

— Eric Weiner

“Music is playing. We will, we will rock you. But no one will be rocked here. There will be no revolution. People…

— Eric Weiner

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who…

— Eric Weiner

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

— Eric Weiner