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

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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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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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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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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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We become what we look at most.
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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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Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.
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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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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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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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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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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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