"[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You……" — Eric Weiner
"[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 life lived well."
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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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We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain…
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More Chase Quotes
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one of 772 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
— Bono
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
— Nicolas Cage
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This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and…
— David Dellinger
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
— Lyman Beecher
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never…
— Diana Nyad
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One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
— Sun Tzu
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is…
— Tim Ferriss
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Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a…
— Peter Bondra
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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over…
— Jimmy Durante
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The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
— E. W. Howe
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