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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

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
Effort
Unpredictable
Doomed
Mines
Mine
Failure
Results

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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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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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I'd rather be happy than right.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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