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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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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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