To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
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William Shakespeare
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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Helen Keller
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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Hermann Hesse
Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my...
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Tennessee Williams
Most people spend their whole lives waging war–against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS
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Germaine Shames
More Quotes By Eric Hoffer
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
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.
