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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.

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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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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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
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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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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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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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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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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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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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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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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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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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