Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.
BENJAMIN HOFFUnfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren’t given enough.
More Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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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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Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.
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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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When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong.
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Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It’s just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
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The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.
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Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.
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Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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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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Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.
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A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.
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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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Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That’s why I remember things so well.
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The Universe knows what it’s doing. So don’t develop a big ego, and don’t be afraid.
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