"Boredom is useful to me when I notice……" — Hugh Prather
"Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts."
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79 Quotes by Hugh Prather
Hugh Prather has 79 quotes on this site.
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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side....
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look…
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Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
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If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want…
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Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the…
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There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and…
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There is no place love is not.
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Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of…
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than…
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
— Gary Becker
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
— Arnold Bennett
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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
— Vinoba Bhave
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is…
— Rachel Blanchard
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People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is…
— Andrea Bocelli
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An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional…
— Vince Cable
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