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Eric Hoffer Quotes about Happiness

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer
Happiness, Happy, Laughter
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Eric Hoffer
Happiness, Being Happy, Simple
"Living Our Values, Closing the Ethical Gap" by Jeffrey Rubin, bigthink.com.

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 of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

Eric Hoffer
Happiness, Time, Work
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Eric Hoffer
Happiness, Men, Perfect

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

Eric Hoffer
Happiness, Believe, Mean
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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