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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
Humor
Trust
Happiness
Peace
Fearlessness
Gentleness
Concentration
Forgiveness
Simplicity

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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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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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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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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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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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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.
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