Eric Weiner Quotes

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• Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and…
• Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
• Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.
• Where we are is vital to who we are,
• We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.
• Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.
• Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
• Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So…
• Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence…
• So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build…
• There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
• [Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
• We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though…
• We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a…
• Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met....…
• As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm…
• I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind,…
• Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's…
• For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself…
• And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on…

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