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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

Hugh Prather

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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 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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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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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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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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 become what we look at most.
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