49 Quotes by Eric Weiner

[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.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

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

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

...any overlap between TV and reality is purely coincidental.

All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

Nothing kills creativity faster than a wall.

Recording life is a poor substitute for living it.