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.
a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die? - Eric Weiner
a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?
- Eric Weiner
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans yo… - Eric Weiner
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans yo…
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. - Eric Weiner
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
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, econo… - Eric Weiner
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, econo…
what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest. - Eric Weiner
what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.
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 … - 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 …
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. … - Eric Weiner
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. …
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. - Eric Weiner
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.
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; l… - Eric Weiner
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; l…
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