Vernon Howard Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
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We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.
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When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.
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Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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Ask spiritual questions with intense integrity, and inspiring answers will surely arrive.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.