quotes by Benjamin Hoff

"Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

"Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

""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 busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.""
— Benjamin Hoff (The Te of Piglet)

"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 do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

"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 lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

"The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

"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 animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Te of Piglet)

"Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

"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 that they weren't given enough. "
— Benjamin Hoff (The Te of Piglet)

""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.""
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

"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 Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

""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 animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.""
— Benjamin Hoff

"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" and "inferior" to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity."
— Benjamin Hoff

""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, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way."
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— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

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— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)