"And yet, over the years I've met so……" — Eric Weiner
"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 of their birth. ... Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually hedonic refugees have an ephiphany, a moment of great clarity when they realize, beyond a doubt, that they were born in the wrong country."
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30 Quotes by Eric Weiner
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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…
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Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
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We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are…
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Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on…
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So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people.…
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[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect…
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