Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.
BENJAMIN HOFFLots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
More Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That’s why I remember things so well.
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Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got.
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No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
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Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
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Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow ‘burn their toast a lot,’ said Pooh
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The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species – and others – alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.
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You’d be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.
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As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
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Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.
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The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.
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The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don’t look clearly and objectively at situations, they don’t recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.
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Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
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A way of life that keeps saying ‘Around the next corner, above the next step,’ works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.
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