Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
VERNON HOWARDYou must never fear anything at all.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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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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Genuine effort is success.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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 truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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