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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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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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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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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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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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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
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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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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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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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