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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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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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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 no place love is not.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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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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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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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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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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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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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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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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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