"There's no one on the island telling them……" — Eric Weiner
"There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write."
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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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[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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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make…
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Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves…
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The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it…
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
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In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about…
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