"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."

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Source : Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.151, Random House

Eric Weiner

#Wall Quotes #Moving Quotes #College Quotes

“When I'm in Boston, I always feel like I'm home. I almost cry, I feel so good.”
“The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.”

Source : Maureen Duffy (1969). “Wounds”
“I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue”
“So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.”

Source : Song: Faith
“A run has never returned me exactly the same. I go, I grow.”
“If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.”
“I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.”
“Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.”

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