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.
VERNON HOWARDBeauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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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.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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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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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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