Benjamin Hoff Quotes

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• It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very…
• Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence.…
• But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a…
• Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble…
• Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.
• 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…
• Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying,…
• There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we…
• Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with…
• The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking…
• While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.
• How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what…
• 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…
• The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
• In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us…

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