Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
VERNON HOWARDTruth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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