When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
VERNON HOWARDHappiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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You must never fear anything at all.
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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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