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When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

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
Nothing
Walk
Right
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Happiness
Love
Simple
Surprisingly
World
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Manipulate
People
Peace
Behave
Power
Enormous
Home
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