Eric Hoffer Quotes

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.