Top 120 Vernon Howard Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.”

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52. “Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.”

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53. “A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.”

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54. “When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.”

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55. “Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.”

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56. “Your level of mental awareness attracts the habitual life you lead.”

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57. “Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.”

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58. “You command a condition by having no negative attitudes toward it.”

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59. “Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.”

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60. “Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.”

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61. “It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.”

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62. “Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”

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63. “We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.”

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64. “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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65. “All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.”

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66. “We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.”

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67. “Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.”

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68. “Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.”

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69. “One of society’s absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.”

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70. “It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.”

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71. “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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72. “The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.”

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73. “When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.”

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74. “Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.”

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75. “The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.”

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76. “Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?”

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77. “We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.”

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78. “Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.”

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79. “A person radiates what he really is, not what he imagines he is, and attracts what he radiates.”

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80. “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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81. “When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.”

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82. “Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.”

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83. “Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.”

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84. “Who asks a king for a penny?”

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85. “Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.”

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86. “Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.”

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87. “Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.”

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88. “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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89. “The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.”

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90. “We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.”

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91. “A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.”

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92. “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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93. “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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94. “Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.”

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95. “Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.”

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96. “One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.”

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97. “The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.”

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98. “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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99. “You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.”

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100. “You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them.”

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