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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.

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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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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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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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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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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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