It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Quote by Eric Hoffer
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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes
- We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
- Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
- When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
- Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
- In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
- Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
- It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Best Quotes
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- Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
- The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
- Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
- In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
- It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
- Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
- Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.