Hugh Prather Quotes
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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
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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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We become what we look at most.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?
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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
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Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
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Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.
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Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.
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Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.
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My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.
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Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.
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To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
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When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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Perfectionism is slow death.
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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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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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I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.
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I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.
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Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
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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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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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It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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