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“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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
“The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Future #Power #Shapes
“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Hype #People #Doe
“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Inspirational #Change #Different
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Thank You #Gratitude #Appreciation
“To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Thinking #Degrees #Needs
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Happiness #Happy #Laughter
“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

#Kindness #Judging #Literature
“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Frustration #Confusion #Want
“They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Inspiration #Persistence #Achievement
“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Inspirational #Faith #Atheism
“There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Loneliness #Failure #Being Alone
“Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Compassion #Soul #Impulse
“A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Soul #Doe #Misery
“The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Mother #Children #Sadness
“No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Kindness #Government #Evil
“We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Giving #Suffering #Purpose
“What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Movement #Corporations #Ends
“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Love #Forgiveness #Attitude
“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Life #Hate #Giving
“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Love #Meaningful #Pregnancy
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#War #Men #People
“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Faith #History #Literature
“It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Hate #Native American #Immigration
“Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Work #Weakness #Power Corrupts
“We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Thinking #Certain #Certainty
“Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Truth #Honesty #Add
“Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Men #Age #May
“A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Time #Good Luck #Greatness
“It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.”
-- Eric Hoffer

#Dream #Past #Civilization

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