Eric Hoffer Quotes About Purpose Of Life

Quotes about: Purpose Of Life

• We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Giving, Suffering

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

• Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Marriage, Names, Boredom

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving, Purpose, Hunger

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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