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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
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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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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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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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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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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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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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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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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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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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