The Tao of Pooh book used the characters from the well-known ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ tales by A. A. Milne to explain the tenets of Taoism.
Best The Tao of Pooh Quotes
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).
When you know and respect your own inner nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
As we have likely recognized by now, no two snowflakes, trees, or animals are alike. No two people are the same, either. Everything has its own Inner Nature. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly. ~ 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).
It’s really great fun to go someplace where there are no timesaving devices because, when you do, you find that you have lots of time. Elsewhere, you’re too busy working to pay for machines to save you time so you won’t have to work so hard. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
The honey doesn’t taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn’t mean so much once it is reached; the reward is not so rewarding once it has been given. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn’t look very deeply into things to begin with. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
Great The Tao of Pooh Quotes
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).
You can’t save time. You can only spend it, but you can spend it wisely or foolishly. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
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 at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that’s within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
The wise are who they are. They work with what they’ve got and do what they can do. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
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).
Top The Tao of Pooh Quotes
By Enjoying the Process, we can stretch that awareness out so that it’s no longer only a moment, but covers the whole thing. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
I think, therefore I am… confused. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
Sooner or later, we are bound to discover some things about ourselves that we don’t like. But once we see they’re there, we can decide what we want to do with them. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
How can you get very far, If you don’t know who you are? ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
What we need to do is recognize inner nature and work with things as they are. When we don’t we get in trouble. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong. ~ 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).
If people were superior to animals, they’d take good care of them,” said Pooh. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
Famous The Tao of Pooh Quotes
One disease, long life; no disease, short life. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
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. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
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 begins right here. They’re not only the ending, but the beginning as well. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
The goal has to be right for us, and it has to be beneficial, in order to ensure a beneficial process. But aside from that, it’s really the process that’s important. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
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. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
Popular The Tao of Pooh Quotes
While pounding on the piano keys may produce noise, removing them doesn’t exactly further the creation of music. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
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. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
Things may get a little odd at times, but they work out. You don’t have to try very hard to make them work out; you just let them. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
Do you want to be really happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got. Do you want to be really miserable? You can begin by being discontented. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
Wu Wei doesn’t try. It doesn’t think about it. It just does it. And when it does, it doesn’t appear to do much of anything. But Things Get Done. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
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 spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).
So these were the 38 top The Tao of Pooh quotes by Benjamin Hoff.
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