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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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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.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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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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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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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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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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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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