"So the greatest source of happiness is other……" — Eric Weiner
"So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves."
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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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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 are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain…
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
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When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog,…
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
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I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I…
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I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because…
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I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from…
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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
— Gustave Flaubert
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It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his…
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