American - Writer | January 23, 1938 - November 15, 2010
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
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Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.
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My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.
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I don't want to work to make money. I want to work to work.
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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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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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I will be what I will be - and I am now what I am. Here is where I will devote my energy.
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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.
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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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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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.
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Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.
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