"God is not an exclamation point. He is,……" — Eric Weiner
"God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this."
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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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More Aldous Quotes
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It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about…
— Ram Dass
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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the…
— Arthur Koestler
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information…
— Tom Wolfe
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When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get…
— Andy Warhol
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What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands…
— Cassandra Clare
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Aldous Huxley actually used LSD to ease his transition at the time of his death.
— Stanislav Grof
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Matthew: I have a question for you real quick. What did you think of my demo? Did you get it?…
— Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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I mean, I've heard that women do fake orgasms, but I've never seen it... It really, deeply upset me. -Aldous…
— Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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Yeah, I had a girl cheat on me once, with both Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher. -Aldous Snow
— Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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Sarah Marshall: I hate your music. Aldous Snow: Yeah well, I fucked the housekeeper the other day.
— Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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How you served five years under her, I don't know. You deserve a medal, or a holiday or at least…
— Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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I had a girlfriend, right? And Liam and Noel Gallagher both had it off with her, right in front of…
— Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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