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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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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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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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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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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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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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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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