Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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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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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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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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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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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 answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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