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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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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 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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There is no place love is not.
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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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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 nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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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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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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