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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
Hugh Prather
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
Hugh Prather
We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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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 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
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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