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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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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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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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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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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
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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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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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We become what we look at most.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?
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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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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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