Hugh Prather

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.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

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.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

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.

Unless a father accepts his faults he will most certainly doubt his virtues.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.