Quote

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.

Hugh Prather

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Thinking
Started
Life
Learning
Left
Change
Live
Way
Things
Changes
Think
Learned

More quotes by Hugh Prather

Image
There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
Hugh Prather
Image
It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
Hugh Prather
Image
When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
Hugh Prather
Image
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
Image
The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
We become what we look at most.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
Hugh Prather
Image
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
Hugh Prather
Image
A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
Hugh Prather
Image
If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
I'd rather be happy than right.
Hugh Prather