Hugh Prather quotes

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write. (Hugh Prather)
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. View quote
Hugh Prather
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. View quote
Hugh Prather
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. View quote
Hugh Prather
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. View quote
Hugh Prather
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves. View quote
Hugh Prather
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. View quote
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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. View quote
Hugh Prather
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. View quote
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. View quote
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Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser? (Hugh Prather)
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. View quote
Hugh Prather
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. View quote
Hugh Prather
I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now. View quote
Hugh Prather
Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency. View quote
Hugh Prather
Don't strive for love, be it. View quote
Hugh Prather
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain. View quote
Hugh Prather
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. View quote
Hugh Prather

Hugh Prather

Occupation: American Writer
Born: January 23, 1938
Died: November 15, 2010
Quotes count: 18

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