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Eric Weiner has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime,…
• 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…
• Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically,…
• So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables…
• There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and…
• [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…

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