Hugh Prather Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Hugh Prather
Hugh Prather Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Selfishness is neither good nor bad - it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.
It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.
I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.
Next time I will ... "
"From now on I will ... "
- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
"From now on I will ... "
- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.
Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
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.
Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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
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.
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side ...
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.
Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
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.
I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.
There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life.
There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.
There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.
Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.
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.
We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't
and those feelings are probably realistic.
and those feelings are probably realistic.
All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.