H Prather Quotes

#1. It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

Hugh Prather

#2. 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.

Hugh Prather

#3. He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled.
Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of.

Richard S. Prather

#4. 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

Hugh Prather

#5. I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.

Hugh Prather

#6. Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Hugh Prather

#7. 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.

Hugh Prather

#8. When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

Hugh Prather

#9. To sing with the voice of angels as we do the work of angels. To laugh with the laugh of Buddha as we go to our awakening. To extend the arms of Jesus to welcome the presence of children and let them climb into our hearts.

Hugh Prather

#10. am not responsible for my feelings, but for what I do with them.

Hugh Prather

#11. 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.

Hugh Prather

#12. We become what we look at most.

Hugh Prather

#13. Perfectionism is slow death.

Hugh Prather

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

Hugh Prather

#15. 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.

Hugh Prather

#16. If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

Hugh Prather

#17. 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.

Hugh Prather

#18. My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Hugh Prather

#19. 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.

Hugh Prather

#20. A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

Hugh Prather

#21. Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side ...

Hugh Prather

#22. We are all saying the same thing in different words.

Hugh Prather

#23. Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.

Hugh Prather

#24. The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today. I

Hugh Prather

#25. Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

Hugh Prather

#26. It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.

Hugh Prather

#27. 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.

Hugh Prather

#28. There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life.
There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.

Hugh Prather

#29. Guilt is a guide that will lead me whenever I choose to follow. It will raise its righteous banner and take me to the wasteland of my incompetence. Guilt is a voice that will speak whenever i choose to listen. It will mournfully address any subject but one : correcting the mistake.

Hugh Prather

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

Hugh Prather