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.
VERNON HOWARDA 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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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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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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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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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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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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