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I'd rather be happy than right.

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
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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.
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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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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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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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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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Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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