It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
VERNON HOWARDFind yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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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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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Genuine effort is success.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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