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
danced heard heart moods
The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to
simple risk trying
It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
volunteer care found
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.
betrayal fear mistake
I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
honesty stupid moving
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.
yesterday want moments
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.
mud messy walk-with-me
A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
simple simplicity quality
The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.
mistake heart practice
The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.
friendship mistake support
Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
mistake responsibility thinking
Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.
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.
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.