Quote

We become what we look at most.

Hugh Prather

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Become
Look
Looks

More quotes by Hugh Prather

Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
Hugh Prather
Image
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
Hugh Prather
Image
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.
Hugh Prather
Image
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
Hugh Prather
Image
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
Next time I will ... From now on I will ... - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
Hugh Prather
Image
Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
Hugh Prather
Image
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
Hugh Prather
Image
Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
Hugh Prather
Image
There is no place love is not.
Hugh Prather
Image
One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
Hugh Prather
Image
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Hugh Prather
Image
Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
Hugh Prather
Image
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.
Hugh Prather
Image
My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
Hugh Prather
Image
Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
Hugh Prather