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Hugh Prather Quotes
Hugh Prather
American
Writer
Born:
Jan 23
,
1938
Died:
Nov 15
,
2010
Am
Energy
Live
Me
Myself
Today
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
Life
I Have Learned
Live Life
Live
Think
Changes
I Think
Way
Life Changes
Learned
Just
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.
Hugh Prather
Humble
Honesty
Will
Face
Stupid
Difficulty
Never
Almost
Feel
Am
Any
Move
Automatically
Honest
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.
Hugh Prather
Me
Man
Hate
Better
Feedback
Negative
Long
Would
Hates
Rather
He
Make
Make A Difference
None
Overlook
Than
Difference
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
Hugh Prather
World
Pain
Condemn
Cloak
Whenever
Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.
Hugh Prather
Creative
Destroys
Mental
Pursued
Over
Exercise
Builds
Discouragement
Option
Which
Turn
Activity
Present
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prather
Myself
Frustration
Reward
Live
Would
Would-Be
Only
Results
Sure
Continuous
Them
Sentence
Actions
Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.
Hugh Prather
God
Religion
Me
Thank God
Better
Power
Energy
Pleasure
Releasing
Seeking
More
Know
Within
Mate
Than
Thank
Meaning
Profession
Even
Now
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Hugh Prather
Writing
Must
Write
Accompanied
Then
Actual
Desire
I don't want to work to make money. I want to work to work.
Hugh Prather
Work
Money
Make
Want
The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.
Hugh Prather
Today
Me
Before
Live
Way
Only
Habit
Because
None
Did
Should
Reason
Sufficient
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.
Hugh Prather
Me
Assumption
Else
Would
Boredom
See
Something
Something Else
Rather
Clearly
Discontent
Doing
Acknowledge
Useful
There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.
Hugh Prather
People
Feelings
Our
Fact
Never
Well-Being
Within
Escape
Influence
Whose
Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.
Hugh Prather
Love
Ourselves
Embraces
Someone
Outside
Simply
Exclude
Does
Very
Then
We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.
Hugh Prather
Good
Freedom
Peace
Enormous
Once
See
Only
Feel
Authority
Us
Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.
Hugh Prather
Myself
Sometimes
Doubt
Doubting
Believe
Like
Making
Am
Believing
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