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.
BENJAMIN HOFFThere is more to knowing than just being correct
More Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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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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I think, therefore I am confused.
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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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Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.
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It means that Tao doesn’t force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
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To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
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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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The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.
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A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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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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If people were superior to animals, they’d take good care of them,” said Pooh.
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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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Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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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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