"That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even,……" — Eric Weiner
"That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that."
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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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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
— Francis Bacon
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I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something…
— John Bolton
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that…
— Phyllis Bottome
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have…
— Emily Bronte
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily…
— Abdallah II
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A…
— Harlan Coben
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Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and…
— Oswald Chambers
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is…
— Douglas MacArthur
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if…
— Bernie Siegel
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Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little…
— George Johnson
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