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“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.”

Needs Reason Young Authority Foolish Immature

Author:Hugh Prather

“Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.”

Needs Sometimes Force Break Response Habitual Volition

Book:Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

Source: Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

“You're wrong means that I don't understand you, I'm not seeing what you're seeing- and I'm not seeing all of you there is to see. But there is nothing wrong with you. You are what you need to be, doing what you need to be doing, and although I may take steps to protect myself of others, I do not know all and therefore am literally inadequate to judge.”

Knows Needs May Mean Steps Seeing Judging Protect Inadequate

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“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.”

Needs Believe Sometimes I Believe Doubt Accidents Consistency

Book:Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

Source: Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

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

Knows Needs Feels Reason Know How Reasons To Be Happy

Book:Notes to Myself

Source: Notes to Myself

“Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Should Persons Today My Own Mistake Responsibility Know How Position Judging Lessons Acknowledge Taking Responsibility Breakthrough My Own Life

Book:Love and Courage

Source: Love and Courage

“There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.”

Needs Mind Heart Children Whole Three Judging Letting Go Release Three Things

Book:The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul

Source: The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul

“Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.”

Needs Fear Frustration Looking Back Indecision Frustration In Life

Book:Notes to Myself

Source: Notes to Myself

About the Author

Born: January 23, 1938
Died: November 15, 2010
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 105

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Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a PersonRelated source material

Notes to MyselfRelated source material

Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in ContradictionsRelated source material

Love and CourageRelated source material

The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your SoulRelated source material

How to Live in the World and Still Be HappyRelated source material

Notes on Love and CourageRelated source material

Spiritual Parenting: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing the Heart of Your ChildRelated source material

The Little Book of Letting Go: Cleanse your Mind, Lift your Spirit, and Replenish your SoulRelated source material

The Quiet AnswerRelated source material

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