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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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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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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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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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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.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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