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
hate cocky men
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.
men sunglasses ifs
If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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.
depression mental-illness mood
Moods should be heard but never danced to.
men faults humans
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human
life mistake want
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
looks
We become what we look at most.
book hands self
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
change life-changing live-life
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
fun humor kids
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
believe taken together
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.
secret forgiving ancient
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
lying today tomorrow
It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
ends process confined
If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.