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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Eric Hoffer -
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer -
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Eric Hoffer -
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
Eric Hoffer -
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer -
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer -
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
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Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
Eric Hoffer -
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer -
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Eric Hoffer -
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer -
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer -
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Eric Hoffer
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer -
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer -
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Eric Hoffer -
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
Eric Hoffer