What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
VERNON HOWARDWhat you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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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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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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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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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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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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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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