Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
VERNON HOWARDTruth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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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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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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