Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
VERNON HOWARDWhenever 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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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.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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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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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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