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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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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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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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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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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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Next time I will ... From now on I will ... - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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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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I'd rather be happy than right.
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There is no place love is not.
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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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