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Hugh Edmondson Prather III was 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.



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✵ 23. January 1938 – 15. November 2010
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Famous Hugh Prather Quotes

“I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.”

Hugh Prather

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“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

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“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

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”

Hugh Prather

Source: Notes to Myself

“Don't strive for love, be it.”

Hugh Prather

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.”

Hugh Prather

Hugh Prather Quotes

“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”

Hugh Prather

Source: I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me

“Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.”

Hugh Prather

Source: I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me

“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.”

Hugh Prather

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”

Hugh Prather

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

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