Benjamin Hoff Quotes

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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…
• Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
• We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.
• To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
• Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.
• Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. Â But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not…
• Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh
• 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…
• There is more to knowing than just being correct
• The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at…
• In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior…
• Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of…
• Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and…
• As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to…
• Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to…
• Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.
• No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
• 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…
• It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say.…
• Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

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