Hugh Prather Quotes

I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

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.

It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

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.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

We become what we look at most.

I'd rather be happy than right.

If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.

Don't strive for love, be it.

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.

Next time I will ...""From now on I will ..."- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.

I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

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.

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life " but that now is all there is of my life.

I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.