"Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple……" — Eric Weiner
"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.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone."
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30 Quotes by Eric Weiner
Eric Weiner has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.
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Where we are is vital to who we are,
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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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Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton…
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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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There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and…
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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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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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