Winnie's philosophy of life

Winnie the Pooh  

Winnie the Pooh---Do you remember this lovely bear? Do you want to know some of Winnie's philosophy of life? 

 

The real world is complicated, makes us exhausted body and mind, let's temporarily put in the fairy tale and to enjoy a quiet and flawless.

 

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

 

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.


Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.


If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...I'll always be with you.

 

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

 

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

 

A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.

 

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as

Roo.


Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

 

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.


Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

 

When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.

 

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.


You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

 

Before beginning a hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

 

I used to believe in forever, but "forever" is too good to be true.

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Comments: 12
  • #1

    Sally_Panda (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 02:10)

    I havent seen these animation, but of course I knew Winne!
    I have some stuffed toys of Winne too, I like them, so cute!!!

  • #2

    Sally_Panda (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 02:15)

    You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

    Is there a saying:----You cannot stay in your corner of the forest waiting for opportunity to find you. You have to go to them sometimes.

  • #3

    SALLY-PANDA (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 02:17)

    I used to believe in forever, but "forever" is too good to be true.

    And also I can say: I used to believe in LOVE,but LOVE is too good to be true. HAHA!

  • #4

    Tiger (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 04:31)

    Peopel tend to ignore others, selfish, or self-centered, so "A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." a good saying

  • #5

    Roger (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 07:58)

    Casey, one of my dogs, sometimes needs to go outside during the night, and he wakes me. I look at the computer while he is out. The last time I saw Winnie the Pooh posted by Sally. It brought a smile to my face and heart. We have always loved Winnie.

    I read the line: ”If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”

    Martha and I have been together over 55 years – more that twice the time we have not been together! Neither of us can really remember well the times we have been alone. We function almost like one person. We know what the other thinks on most things without discussion (although we still discuss them).

    So, that line has a special meaning because Martha and I have talked about this exact situation and what will happen in different cases. We are getting old and are thinking about our future. What will we do when one of us dies. If one of us dies one day sooner then the other, they avoid the pain of the void. If you die one day later than the other, the partner avoids the pain. We have decided that the best course is to die within a minute of each other, and to be unconscious during that minute.

  • #6

    Roger (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 08:05)

    "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

    THIS MAY BE THE ANSWER TO CHAT GROUPS THAT GROW SILENT.

  • #7

    Roger (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 08:22)

    Sally, you asked "Is there a saying:----You cannot stay in your corner of the forest waiting for opportunity to find you. You have to go to them sometimes."

    I do not know of one. I think at least in America there is not such a saying.

  • #8

    Martha (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 08:47)

    We do have a saying: "When opportunity knocks, answer the door."

  • #9

    Sally_Panda (Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:37)

    Wow! huge thanks Roger and Martha.

  • #10

    Kate (Wednesday, 15 September 2010 01:07)

    So much thanks for sharing! >0< I'm much keen on much "When opportunity knocks, answer the door."
    "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. " I can recall the words Roger had ever said----Martha and I have been together for 54 years and we are planning to live another 54 years. So romantic!

  • #11

    Willow (Friday, 11 March 2011 07:08)

    When I read Roger's words, I am shaken. Some of people around
    me got married and then divorced, and some of them including
    me is still looking for love and even doubt if there is true
    love. But now I know there is, but I donnot know how about me.
    Where is my Mr right?

  • #12

    young (Tuesday, 17 September 2013 01:35)

    I know winnie when i was a elmentary student. It broughts lot of fun for me at that time ,But i didn't really know it was a philosophy.

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PHILADELPHIA — DINNER with your children in 19th-century America often required some self-control. Berry stains in your daughter’s hair? Good for her. Raccoon bites running up your boy’s arms? Bet he had an interesting day.

 

As this year’s summer vacation begins, many parents contemplate how to rein in their kids. But there was a time when Americans pushed in the opposite direction, preserved in Mark Twain’s cat-swinging scamps. Parents back then encouraged kids to get some wildness out of their system, to express the republic’s revolutionary values.

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American children of the 19th century had a reputation. Returning British visitors reported on American kids who showed no respect, who swore and fought, who appeared — at age 10 — “calling for liquor at the bar, or puffing a cigar in the streets,” as one wrote. There were really no children in 19th-century America, travelers often claimed, only “small stuck-up caricatures of men and women.”

 

This was not a “carefree” nation, too rough-hewed to teach proper manners; adults deliberately chose to express new values by raising “go-ahead” boys and girls. The result mixed democracy and mob rule, assertiveness and cruelty, sudden freedom and strict boundaries. Visitors noted how American fathers would brag that their disobedient children were actually “young republicans,” liberated from old hierarchies. Children were still expected to be deferential to elders, but many were trained to embody their nation’s revolutionary virtues. “The theory of the equality” was present at the ballot box, according to one sympathetic Englishman, but “rampant in the nursery.”

 

Boys, in particular, spent their childhoods in a rowdy outdoor subculture. After age 5 or so they needed little attention from their mothers, but were not big enough to help their fathers work. So until age 10 or 12 they spent much of their time playing or fighting.

 

The writer William Dean Howells recalled his ordinary, violent Ohio childhood, immersed in his loose gang of pals, rarely catching a “glimpse of life much higher than the middle of a man.” Howells’s peers were “always stoning something,” whether friends, rivals or stray dogs. They left a trail of maimed animals behind them, often hurt in sloppy attempts to domesticate wild pets.

 

And though we envision innocents playing with a hoop and a stick, many preferred “mumbletypeg” — a game where two players competed to see who could throw a knife closer to his own foot. Stabbing yourself meant a win by default.

 

Left to their own devices, boys learned an assertive style that shaped their futures. The story of every 19th-century empire builder — Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt — seems to begin with a striving 10-year-old. “Boy culture” offered training for the challenges of American manhood and a reprieve before a life of labor.

 

But these unsupervised boys also formed gangs that harassed the mentally ill, the handicapped and racial and ethnic minorities. Boys played an outsize role in the anti-Irish pogroms in 1840s Philadelphia, the brutal New York City draft riots targeting African-Americans during the Civil War and attacks on Chinese laborers in Gilded Age California. These children did not invent the bigotry rampant in white America, but their unrestrained upbringing let them enact what their parents mostly muttered.

 

Their sisters followed a different path. Girls were usually assigned more of their mothers’ tasks. An 8-year-old girl would be expected to help with the wash or other physically demanding tasks, while her brother might simply be too small, too slow or too annoying to drive the plow with his father. But despite their drudgery, 19th-century American girls still found time for tree climbing, bonfire building and waterfall-jumping antics. There were few pretty pink princesses in 19th-century America: Girls were too rowdy and too republican for that.

 

So how did we get from “democratic sucklings” to helicopter parents? Though many point to a rise of parental worrying after the 1970s, this was an incremental change in a movement that began a hundred years earlier.

 

In the last quarter of the 19th century, middle-class parents launched a self-conscious project to protect children. Urban professionals began to focus on children’s vulnerabilities. Well-to-do worriers no longer needed to raise tough dairymaids or cunning newsboys; the changing economy demanded careful managers of businesses or households, and restrained company men, capable of navigating big institutions.

 

Demographics played a role as well: By 1900 American women had half as many children as they did in 1800, and those children were twice as likely to live through infancy as they were in 1850. Ironically, as their children faced fewer dangers, parents worried more about their protection.

 

Instead of seeing boys and girls as capable, clever, knockabout scamps, many reconceived children as vulnerable, weak and naïve. Reformers introduced child labor laws, divided kids by age in school and monitored their play. Jane Addams particularly worked to fit children into the new industrial order, condemning “this stupid experiment of organizing work and failing to organize play.”

 

There was good reason to tame the boys and girls of the 19th century, if only for stray cats’ sake. But somewhere between Jane Addams and Nancy Grace, Americans lost track of their larger goal. Earlier parents raised their kids to express values their society trumpeted.

 

“Precocious” 19th-century troublemakers asserted their parents’ democratic beliefs and fit into an economy that had little use for 8-year-olds but idealized striving, self-made men. Reformers designed their Boy Scouts to meet the demands of the 20th century, teaching organization and rebalancing the relationship between play and work. Both movements agreed, in their didactic ways, that playtime shaped future citizens.

 

Does the overprotected child articulate values we are proud of in 2014? Nothing is easier than judging other peoples’ parenting, but there is a side of contemporary American culture — fearful, litigious, controlling — that we do not brag about but that we reveal in our child rearing, and that runs contrary to our self-image as an open, optimistic nation. Maybe this is why sheltering parents come in for so much easy criticism: A visit to the playground exposes traits we would rather not recognize.

 

There is, however, a saving grace that parents will notice this summer. Kids are harder to guide and shape, as William Dean Howells put it, “than grown people are apt to think.” It is as true today as it was two centuries ago: “Everywhere and always the world of boys is outside of the laws that govern grown-up communities.” Somehow, they’ll manage to go their own way.

 

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A National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society who is writing a book on the role of young people in 19th-century American democracy.

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HONG KONG — His son landed contracts to sell equipment to state oil fields and thousands of filling stations across China. His son’s mother-in-law held stakes in pipelines and natural gas pumps from Sichuan Province in the west to the southern isle of Hainan. And his sister-in-law, working from one of Beijing’s most prestigious office buildings, invested in mines, property and energy projects.

 

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A visitor at the Zhou family's ancestral graves in Xiqliantou, eastern China.  Intrigue surrounds the family after a spate of arrests.  Sim Chi Yim for the New York Times
A visitor at the Zhou family's ancestral graves in Xiqliantou, eastern China. Intrigue surrounds the family after a spate of arrests. Sim Chi Yim for the New York Times

But President Xi Jinping has targeted Mr. Zhou in an extraordinary corruption inquiry, a first for a Chinese party leader of Mr. Zhou’s rank, and put his family’s extensive business interests in the cross hairs.

 

Even by the cutthroat standards of Chinese politics, it is a bold maneuver. The finances of the families of senior leaders are among the deepest and most politically delicate secrets in China. The party has for years followed a tacit rule that relatives of the elite could prosper from the country’s economic opening, which rewarded loyalty and helped avert rifts in the leadership.

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A late 19th century family taking a stroll down a set of railroad tracks
A late 19th century family taking a stroll down a set of railroad tracks

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A visitor at the Zhou family's ancestral graves in Xiqliantou, eastern China.  Intrigue surrounds the family after a spate of arrests.  Sim Chi Yim for the New York Times
A visitor at the Zhou family's ancestral graves in Xiqliantou, eastern China. Intrigue surrounds the family after a spate of arrests. Sim Chi Yim for the New York Times

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