"We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love."

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Source : Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.187, Random House

Eric Weiner

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“My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.”

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“I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of that language came from doo-wop music. You know, "I Asked the Lord Above," "Heaven Sent Me an Angel." That's rock-'n-roll, and that's where a lot of this language is coming from. Also, I've said before that as soon as you start having a conversation with Jesus in a song you know you're dealing with issues of morality and how fragile it is to be human. It's a shortcut to putting those ideas across.”

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“If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is. Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female. Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.”

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“Everybody wants to win.”
“Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate”
“The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.”
“Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.”
“My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.”

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