That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.
Eric WeinerPsychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.
Eric WeinerGod is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called โhuman grace.โ Somewhere along the way, weโve lost sight of this.
Eric Weiner[Happiness is] a ghost, itโs a shadow. You canโt really chase it. Itโs a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
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