“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, book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

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