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Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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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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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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There is no place love is not.
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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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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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I can't be found in myself I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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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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Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
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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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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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When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
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When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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We become what we look at most.
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There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
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