Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
VERNON HOWARDOne 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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