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Reading Notes To Myself is one of those rare experiences that comes only once in a great while. The editor who discovered the book said, "When I first read Prather's manuscript it was late at night and I was tired, but by the time I finished it, I felt rested and alive. Since then I've... read more
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“I feel what I feel what I feel.”
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“What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?”
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“I say to people, “I always do so-and-so,” or“I never do so-and-so,” as if being my self depended on such banal consistencies.”
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“The key to motivation is to look at how far I have come rather than how far I haveto go.”
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“There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life. There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.”
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“My trouble is I analyze lifeinstead of live it.”
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“Now that I know I’m no wiser than anyone else,does this wisdom make me wiser?”
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“I don’t need a “reason” to be happy. I don’thave to consult the future to know how happy I am now.”
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“Unless I accept my faults, I will unquestionably doubt my virtues.”
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“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.”
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“I am not interested so much in what I do with my hands or words as what I do with my heart. I want to live from the inside out, not from the outside in.”
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“Standing before the refrigerator: If I have to ask myself if I’m hungry, I’m not.”
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“I need solitude like I need food and rest, and like eating and resting, solitude is most healing whenit fits the rhythm of my needs. A rigidly scheduled aloneness does not nourish me.”
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“The tools of the mind can be wrongly used, but the mind possesses no wrong tools.”
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“The criticism that hurts the most is the one that echoes my own self-condemnation.”
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“There is no such thing as “best” in a world ofindividuals.”
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“I have the choice of being right or being human.”
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“When I am feeling small, negative feedback seems better than none. I would rather have a person hate me than overlook me. As long as I am hated I make a difference.”
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“Profanity fixes the other person’s attention on my words rather than my thoughts.”
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“If I feel compelled to answer every question, I am the one compelling me.”
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The problem will be solved when I accept that happiness is a present attitude, not a future condition.
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I’m convinced that this anxiety running through my life is the tension between what I “should be” and what I am. My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it. It seems to begin whenever I smuggle into my mind an expectation about how I or others should be. It is the tension between my desire to control the world and the recognition that I can’t.
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The key to motivation is to look at how far I have come rather than how far I have to go.
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The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expected.
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Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys. By becoming conscious of the option my mood sets before me, I am free to decline it.
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Forgiveness is the willingness to begin. Guilt is the love of staying stuck.
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Don’t fight a fact, deal with it. Don’t discard your self, be more of it.
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I can have a self or I can have consistent behavior. I cannot have both.
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Why do I judge my day by how much I have “accomplished”?
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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If I had only. . .forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings and reached out to those around me and smelled the air and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations and heard the rain on the roof and put my arms around my wife...and it's not too late
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- Hugh Prather (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 158.1
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