Best Hugh Prather Quotes
- 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.… Acknowledge
- There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor Felt
- My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it. Analyze
- I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist… All
- Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can… Acknowledging
- Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure. Doomed
- Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition. Attitude
- 'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine. Failure
- A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud. Come Walk
- We become what we look at most. Funny
- Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out. Energy
- Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain. Cloak
- Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. Describe
- The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust… Begin
- 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… Best
- The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little… Chat
- But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day. Another Day
- When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love… Behave
- If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. Confined
- Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right? Choose
- Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace. Ambiguity
- I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human Err
- If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it… Attention
- 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… Any
- Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. Change