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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
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Rest
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Firsts
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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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Don't strive for love, be it.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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There is no place love is not.
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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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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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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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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
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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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