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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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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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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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It's not that today is the first day of the rest of my life, but that now is all there is of my life.
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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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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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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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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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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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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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