Eric Weiner Quotes

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

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Running
  • Happiness
  • More

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Thanks

• As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Practice
  • Happiness

• I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • Free
  • Believed

• A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Happiness
  • Compassion

• Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Happiness

• Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Food
  • Suffering
  • Happiness

• You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Life
  • Career
  • Strong

• The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Happiness

• Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Happiness

• Happiness is a sort of action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Action
  • Happiness

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Pain
  • Happiness
  • Enemies

• What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Happiness
  • Duties
  • Aims

• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Business
  • Smart
  • Green

• The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Emotions
  • Image

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

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Happiness
  • Believed
  • Trick