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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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There is no place love is not.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
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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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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.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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