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
victory mixtures problem
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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.
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.
letting-go firsts steps
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
way
Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?
thinking boredom want
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.