Eric Hoffer Quotes

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

He traveled in order to come home.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

Early youth is a baffling time.