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

• Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Freedom
  • Happiness
  • U.S.

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

  

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

• Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Past
  • Happiness

• 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

• The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Happy
  • Nature

• 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

• Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Happiness
  • Unshared
  • Scarcely

• What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Me
  • Desire

• I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Always
  • Cuba

• If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Planning
  • Gone
  • Artistic

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

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Happiness
  • Believed
  • Trick