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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

Vernon Howard

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong

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