Eric Weiner Quotes

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• what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

  Eric Weiner

  Stronger, Honest, Makes You Stronger

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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 a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

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  Travel, Decision, Return

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.144, Random House

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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 to a life lived well.

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  Shadow, Sides, Ghost

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• Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.

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  Beach, Gratitude, Thinking

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• Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

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  People, Office, Family And Friends

  Eric Weiner (2008). “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World”, p.179, Hachette UK

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• We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

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  Helping Others, People, Feel Good

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.187, Random House

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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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  Doors, Feet, Persons

  Eric Weiner (2008). “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• 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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  Wall, Moving, College

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.151, Random House

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• When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

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  Coffee, Problem, Stuck

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.

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  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

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  Home, Simple, Want

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• I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

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  Tricks, Corners, Around The Corner

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• I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

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  Believe, Creative, Who We Are

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.

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  Country, Party, Simple

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• Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

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  Skills, Use, Compromise

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.119, Random House

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• As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.'... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.

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  Negativity, Misery, Kind

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• Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

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  Meaningful, Laughter, Happy Life

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.325, Random House

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• 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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  Exclamation Points, Sight, People

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• Where we are is vital to who we are.

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  Who We Are

  "Eric Weiner travels the world to follow 'Geography of Bliss'" by Karla Starr, www.sfgate.com. January 20, 2008.

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• Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

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  Verbs, Tissues, Nouns

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• A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

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  Frustration, Waiting, Mystery

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• We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.

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  Past, Space, Suvs

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.149, Random House

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• Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

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  Believe, Looks

  Eric Weiner (2011). “Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Keys, Creative

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

  Eric Weiner

  Air, Practice, People

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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