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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Forgiveness
Simplicity
Humor
Trust
Happiness
Peace
Fearlessness
Gentleness
Concentration

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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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There is no place love is not.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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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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