Hugh Prather Quotes - Page 3

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

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.

When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.

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

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

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.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

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

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

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

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

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 at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

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.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.

Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?

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.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

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

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

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.

There is no place love is not.