When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
VERNON HOWARDYou know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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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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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.
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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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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Genuine effort is success.
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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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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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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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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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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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