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Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.
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
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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 -
For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.
Eric Weiner -
It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.
Eric Weiner -
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.
Eric Weiner -
Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.
Eric Weiner -
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
Eric Weiner