“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.”
- Hugh Prather
“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”
“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.”
“To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.”
“Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.”
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.”
“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.”
“Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.”
“Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.”