163 Quotes by Hugh Prather

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

I don't want to work to make money. I want to work to work.

I will be what I will be - and I am now what I am. Here is where I will devote my energy.

I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.

There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.

Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.