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
fighting facts deals
Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
perfectionism
Perfectionism is slow death.
happiness
I'd rather be happy than right.
girl years people
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
effort results unpredictable
Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
time mean self
I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.
men evil feelings
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.
failure mean faults
'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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.
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.
acceptance doubt faults
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
mistake my-mistakes
When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
men faults humans
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human