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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
Fearlessness
Peace
Gentleness
Concentration
Forgiveness
Simplicity

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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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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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Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?
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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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There is no place love is not.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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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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