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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

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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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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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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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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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I'd rather be happy than right.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.
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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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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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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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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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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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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.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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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.
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Don't strive for love, be it.
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