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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.

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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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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True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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There is no place love is not.
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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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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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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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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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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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