"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Happiness Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.”
“Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.”
“Then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.”
“Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.”
“As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.26
“Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists”
“They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.”

Source : Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.35, Hol Art Books
“Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.”

Source : Speech by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, archive.defense.gov. August 10, 2012.

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