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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.

Vernon Howard

Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
VERNON HOWARD

Belief Believe Looks
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
VERNON HOWARD

Simple World Worry
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Battle Causes Frustration
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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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Desire Understanding Water
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Creativity Dark Mistakes
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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Knowing Men Self
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Breathing Finding Yourself Personality
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying

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