Vernon Howard Quotes

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

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.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

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

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

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.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

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

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.

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

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

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

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.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

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

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

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

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.

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

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

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

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

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

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

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

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

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

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

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

Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

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

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

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

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

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