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!
VERNON HOWARDYou must never fear anything at all.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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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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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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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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