"A saying from the area of Chinese medicine……" — Benjamin Hoff
"A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there."
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77 Quotes by Benjamin Hoff
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Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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