Hugh Prather - People Quotes

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There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor.

Hugh Prather
Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

Hugh Prather
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side....

Hugh Prather
When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel; "I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you."

Hugh Prather
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.

Hugh Prather
Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

Hugh Prather
Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

Hugh Prather