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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

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
Attitude
Present
Happiness
Future
Condition
Conditions

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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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