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Thinking about happiness makes us less happy. — Eric Weiner

A simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die? — Eric Weiner

The problem with finding paradise is that others might find it, too. — Eric Weiner

Toward the end of his life, Fred Terman wrote that he had no regrets: "If I had my life to live over again, I would play the same record. — Eric Weiner

Compassion arises spontaneously from wisdom. — Eric Weiner

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

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. — Eric Weiner

The narrator, in a voice-of-God tenor, explains the experiment. — Eric Weiner

Ancestry is not destiny, — Eric Weiner

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed. — Eric Weiner

Depression, contrary to what we normally believe, is not sadness but an inability to fully feel sadness. Depression is sorrow denied. — Eric Weiner

The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt. — Eric Weiner

Happiness is a choice. Not an easy choice, not always a desirable one, but a choice nonetheless. — Eric Weiner

Tell me, Comrade, what is capitalism?" "The exploitation of man by man." "And what is communism?" "The reverse." Okay, — Eric Weiner

Religion is like a knife. If you use it the wrong way you can cut yourself. — Eric Weiner

You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory. — Eric Weiner

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything. — Eric Weiner

It is pure id. Freud would not approve. He regarded the obvious with the same contempt most of us reserve for wine spritzers. — Eric Weiner

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. — 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. — Eric Weiner

The problems we discover on our own are the ones that motivate us the most — Eric Weiner

The expectation of a reward or evaluation, even a positive evaluation, squelched creativity. — Eric Weiner

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change. — Eric Weiner

Everyone has their own idea of happiness. — Eric Weiner

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it. — Eric Weiner

Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life. — Eric Weiner

mandating innovation is an oxymoron, maybe not as absurd as "scheduling spontaneity," but perilously close. I — Eric Weiner

messiness stimulates creative thought. — Eric Weiner

When the last tree is cut, When the last river is emptied, When the last fish is caught, Only then will Man realize that he can not eat money. — Eric Weiner

The good life . . . cannot be mere indulgence. It must contain a measure of grit and truth," observed geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. Tuan — Eric Weiner

Happiness doesn't require words. — Eric Weiner

The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi — Eric Weiner

Hotels are wonderful inventions, but they are not the ideal window to the soul of a nation. — Eric Weiner

What doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest. — Eric Weiner

Where we are is vital to who we are, — Eric Weiner

If you've ever had a rational thought or asked Why? or gazed at the night sky in silent wonder, then you have had a Greek moment. — Eric Weiner

thambos, "that reverential terror and awe aroused by the proximity of any supernatural force or being which one discerns, — Eric Weiner

See what is before you, the thing itself. Analyze later. — Eric Weiner

Nevertheless, a few brave researchers have bellied up to the laboratory. — Eric Weiner

if everyone is a genius, then nobody is. I — Eric Weiner

The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out. — Eric Weiner

Who travels widely needs his wits about him. The stupid should stay at home. And — Eric Weiner

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

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time. — Eric Weiner

Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia. — Eric Weiner

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

Paradise is a moving target. — Eric Weiner

Here is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. — Eric Weiner

What doesn't kill you not only makes you stronger but also more honest. Laurey — 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. — Eric Weiner

Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance. — Eric Weiner

Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better. — Eric Weiner

The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition. — Eric Weiner

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing. — Eric Weiner

The measure of a society, he said, is how well it transforms pain and suffering into something worthwhile. — Eric Weiner

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience. — Eric Weiner

Nothing kills creativity faster than a wall. — Eric Weiner

We need to a new word to describe Swiss happiness. — Eric Weiner

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too. — Eric Weiner

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