We’ve collected fifteen of the best, most unforgettable quotes from The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff to inspire and empower you. Enjoy!
1. “When you know and respect your own inner nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong.”
2. “Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen though… that’s the problem.”
3. “The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much.”
5. “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.”
6. “I think, therefore I am… confused.”
7. “No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.”
9. “If people were superior to animals, they’d take good care of them.”
10. “The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.”
11. “A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.”
13. “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.”
14. “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.”
15. “The wise are who they are. They work with what they’ve got and do what they can do.”
