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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
Condition
Conditions
Attitude
Present
Happiness
Future

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.
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Next time I will ... From now on I will ... - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
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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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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
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