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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
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Unpredictable
Doomed
Mines
Mine
Failure
Results
Effort

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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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We become what we look at most.
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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