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Living Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
- Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
- 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.…
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
- There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
- Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
- The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born…
- The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The…
- The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a…
- It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
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