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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.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Made
Love
Life
Complicated
Simple

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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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I'd rather be happy than right.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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There is no place love is not.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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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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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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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 are all saying the same thing in different words.
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Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
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One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
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