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
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.
ends process confined
If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
victory mixtures problem
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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.
heart bitterness painful
There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
ocean water mind
If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?
simplicity concentration gentleness
Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
immature needs foolish
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.