The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.Eric Hoffer
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
Eric Hoffer
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