black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

Vernon Howard

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.
VERNON HOWARD

Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Challenges Feelings Gratitude
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
VERNON HOWARD

Home Love Mistake
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
VERNON HOWARD

Answers Quietly Willing
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
VERNON HOWARD

Breathing Finding Yourself Personality
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
VERNON HOWARD

Acceptance Block Simple
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
VERNON HOWARD

Emotion Negative Understanding
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
VERNON HOWARD

Live Nothing Trying
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
VERNON HOWARD

Fun Really Truth
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
VERNON HOWARD

Half Needs World
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
VERNON HOWARD

Goal Self Supermind Upset
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
VERNON HOWARD

Feet Sensible Years
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
VERNON HOWARD

Mind Perseverance Persistence
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
VERNON HOWARD

Assuming Emotional Feelings
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
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
VERNON HOWARD

Imagination Life Reality

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Vernon Howard Quotes