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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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I can't be found in myself I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.
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When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
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One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
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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.
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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.
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Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
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Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.
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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.
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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.
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It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.
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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
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