Eric Weiner - People Quotes

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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.

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 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.

Eric Weiner

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps — located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

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; love.

Eric Weiner