You can never get enough of what you don't really want.

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About Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely...

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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

—English proverb

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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

—King Solomon

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The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

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Tenderness contains an element of sadness. It is not the sadness of feeling sorry for yourself or feeling deprived, but it is a natural situation of fullness. You feel so full and rich, as if you were about to shed tears. Your eyes are full of tears, and the moment you blink, the tears will spill out of your eyes and roll down your cheeks. In order to be a good warrior, one has to feel this sad and tender heart.

—Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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I have two enemies in all the world, / Two twins, inseparably pooled: / The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.

—Marina Tsvetaeva

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