Hugh Prather
Hugh Prather
Hugh Edmondson Prather IIIwas an American self-help writer, lay minister, and counselor, most famous for his first book, Notes to Myself, which was first published in 1970 by Real People Press, and later reprinted by Bantam Books. It has sold over 5 million copies, and has been translated into ten languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 January 1938
CountryUnited States of America
loss suffering moments
Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
creativity people might
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.
frustration rewards mindfulness
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
change life-changing live-life
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
mistake my-mistakes
When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
peace passion heart
Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.
simple complicated made
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.
depression mental-illness mood
Moods should be heard but never danced to.
trying energy absurd
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.
morning hands another-day
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.
fighting self-worth people
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.
self names attention
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 in the name of some self-styled obligation.
way
Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?
mind chaos whole
A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.