Quote

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

Hugh Prather

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Feel
Humility
Feels
Move
Never
Stupid
Honest
Almost
Automatically
Face
Humble
Faces
Honesty
Moving
Difficulty

More quotes by Hugh Prather

Image
When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you.
Hugh Prather
Image
We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
Hugh Prather
Image
Don't strive for love, be it.
Hugh Prather
Image
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
Hugh Prather
Image
Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
Hugh Prather
Image
A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
Hugh Prather
Image
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Hugh Prather
Image
When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Hugh Prather
Image
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
Hugh Prather
Image
An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
Hugh Prather
Image
Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given I have not embraced what I have learned I lack my own conviction.
Hugh Prather
Image
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.
Hugh Prather
Image
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
Hugh Prather
Image
If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
Hugh Prather
Image
There is no place love is not.
Hugh Prather
Image
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
Hugh Prather
Image
All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.
Hugh Prather
Image
It's not that today is the first day of the rest of my life, but that now is all there is of my life.
Hugh Prather
Image
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
Hugh Prather
Image
We become what we look at most.
Hugh Prather