Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
VERNON HOWARDAn 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Genuine effort is success.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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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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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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