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.
VERNON HOWARDEvery day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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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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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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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 only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Genuine effort is success.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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