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Live Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- 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…
- In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
- You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for…
- Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly…
- The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
- When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for.…
- In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world…
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda