Hugh Prather Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Words Of Wisdom, Deep Thought

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.38, Bantam

• The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Heart, Practice

• I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

  Hugh Prather

  Betrayal, Fear, Mistake

  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

• perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

  Hugh Prather

  Life, Mistake, Would Be

• Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

  Hugh Prather

  Friendship, Mistake, Support

• Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Responsibility, Thinking

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.11, Conari Press

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