Amy Tush > Amy's 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, Notes to Myself

“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, I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me

“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”
― Hugh Prather, I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me

“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, Notes to Myself

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

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

“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, Notes to Myself

“I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes on Love and Courage

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love