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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Vernon Howard

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

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