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Hugh Prather Quotes: Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
         

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.


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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.



Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.



Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.



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.

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.



Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.



An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.



It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.



It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.



A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.



There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.





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I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.

I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.



I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.



That time and those people are upon you!

That time and those people are upon you!



Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.

Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.



A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.



Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.



The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.



The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.

The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.



The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.




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