Tao Of Pooh Quotes

• Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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• 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

  Life, Fun, Block

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Owl, Piglet, Rabbits

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Cheer Up, Taoism, Want

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• Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Missing You, Thinking Of You

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• When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.

  A. A. Milne

  Morning, Food, Pigs

  A.A. Milne (1973). “Winnie-the-Pooh”

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• Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Children, Smart, Voice

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• 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

  Confused, Thinking, Awkward

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• 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

  Trying, Way, Circumstances

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• "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. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."

  Benjamin Hoff

  Funny, Clever, Humor

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Believe, Needs, Use

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Tao, Where You Belong, Wrong Job

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• A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Friendship, Relationship

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do, it's all there in front of you. But if you try too hard to see it, you'll only become confused. I am me and you are you. As you can see; but when you do the things that you can do, you will find the way. The way will follow you.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Confused, Trying, Way

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• When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

  A. A. Milne

  Way, Can Do

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• 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

  Animal, Needs, Grass

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• A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Clever, Heart, Mind

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• Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Life, Jobs, People

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• 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

  Simple, Saving, Problem

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• 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 you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Justice, Clue, All The Best

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• "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
  "Wisdom from the Western Taoist," I said.
  "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said.
  "It is," I said.
  "That's not about Taoism," he said.
  "Oh, yes it is," I said.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Words Of Wisdom, Taoism, Sound

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right."

  Benjamin Hoff

  Block, Silly, Simple

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• Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Sweet, New Home, Understood

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• A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

  A. A. Milne

  Bird

  'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926) ch. 6

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• 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

  Simple, Reality, Squares

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