Eric Hoffer Quotes

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us

Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

Compassion is a verb.

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

When you're all alone, love one another.

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.