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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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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.
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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
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Next time I will ... From now on I will ... - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
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