Vernon Howard Quotes
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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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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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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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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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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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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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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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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.
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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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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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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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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.