Desire Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Greater Inspirational Love Satisfaction
The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those… — David Niven Copy Share Image
In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come… — Paul Acquasanta Copy Share Image
We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Satisfaction does not arrive simply when we do what makes us feel good. It comes when we serve others. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image