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 HOWARDThe only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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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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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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