Top 120 Vernon Howard Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.”

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

56. “The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.”

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

59. “Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.”

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

62. “Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.”

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

65. “Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.”

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

— Vernon Howard

67. “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.”

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

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74. “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.”

— Vernon Howard

75. “Who asks a king for a penny?”

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

— Vernon Howard

77. “All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.”

— Vernon Howard

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

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

85. “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.”

— Vernon Howard

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

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

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

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91. “Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.”

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

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93. “Regrets at losing social or financial opportunities are both delusion and needless pain.”

— Vernon Howard

94. “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.”

— Vernon Howard

95. “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.”

— Vernon Howard

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

— Vernon Howard

97. “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

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

— Vernon Howard

99. “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.”

— Vernon Howard

100. “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.”

— Vernon Howard