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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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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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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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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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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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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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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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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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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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