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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
Present
Happiness
Future
Condition
Conditions
Attitude

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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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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.
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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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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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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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