Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.
BENJAMIN HOFFNo matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
More Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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Modern man’s difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
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If people were superior to animals, they’d take good care of them,” said Pooh.
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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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While Eeyore frets … … and Piglet hesitates … and Rabbit calculates … and Owl pontificates …Pooh just is.
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A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.
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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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A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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Through working in harmony with life’s circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.
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We simply need to believe in the power that’s within us, and use it.
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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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Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they’re part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They’re not only the ending, but the beginning as well.
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Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.
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Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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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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