Hugh Prather Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Hugh Prather quote about:
- Change,
- Difficulty,
- Fear,
- Frustration,
- Giving,
- Happiness,
- Heart,
- Judging,
- Letting Go,
- Life,
- Mistakes,
- Today,
- Values,
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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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“Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.”
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“It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.”
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“There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.”
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“Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.”
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“My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.”
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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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“Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.”
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“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”
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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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“It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.”
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“Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.”
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“There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.”
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“An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.”
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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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“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.”
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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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“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”
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“I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human”
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“When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.”
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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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“Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.”
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“Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.”
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“A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.”
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“Moods should be heard but never danced to.”
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“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”
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“Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.”
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“Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.”
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“To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.”
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“True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.”
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