black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Vernon Howard

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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
VERNON HOWARD

Choices Path Wise Words
You must never fear anything at all.
VERNON HOWARD

Fear Mind never
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Hurt Ideas Revenge
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
VERNON HOWARD

Answers Quietly Willing
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
VERNON HOWARD

People Suffering World
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
VERNON HOWARD

Live Nothing Trying
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
VERNON HOWARD

Attitude Change Loss
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Events Movement Outcomes
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
VERNON HOWARD

Needs Reality Self
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Psychics Sea Self
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
VERNON HOWARD

Healing Honesty Self
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
VERNON HOWARD

Self Unseen Weakness
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
VERNON HOWARD

Courage Negativity Thinking
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
VERNON HOWARD

Guidance Heard Night
To change what you get you must change who you are.
VERNON HOWARD

Change Get Must

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Vernon Howard Quotes