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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
Concentration
Forgiveness
Simplicity
Humor
Trust
Happiness
Peace
Fearlessness
Gentleness

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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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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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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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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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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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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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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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