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Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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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Moods
Depression
Illness
Mood
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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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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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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