Vernon Howard Quotes - Page 3

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

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

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

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

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

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

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

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

We can become slaves to things we don't understand

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

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward some goal. Look very closely to discover tense feelings and nervous thoughts whirling around inside. Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

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.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.