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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

Vernon Howard

You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
VERNON HOWARD

Care Made Mind
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
VERNON HOWARD

Real Simple Spiritual
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
VERNON HOWARD

Live Nothing Trying
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Air Liberty Men
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Events Movement Outcomes
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
VERNON HOWARD

Beauty Poor Skins
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
VERNON HOWARD

Disturbance Powerful Resistance

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