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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
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
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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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There is no place love is not.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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I can't be found in myself I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.
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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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