"Compromise is a skill, and like all skills……" — Eric Weiner

"Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use."

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30 Quotes by Eric Weiner

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…
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
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…
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…
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on…
So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people.…
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing 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…
We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain…

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

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