Eric Hoffer

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience

Be happy; without reason.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

My number one daily habit is to give myself permission to be happy. It’s physical and mental; it’s my diet, physical activity, and emotional state. That’s all tied together.

If you want to be happy, be.

I’m always smiling and happy.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.