Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
VERNON HOWARDA person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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