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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
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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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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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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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Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.
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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 I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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We become what we look at most.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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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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When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
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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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