Vernon Howard famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Education

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-- Vernon Howard

#Life #Happiness #Success

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

#Freedom #Numbers #Walks

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
-- Vernon Howard

#Running #Night #Darkness

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.
-- Vernon Howard

#Hurt #Acceptance #People

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.
-- Vernon Howard

#Stupid #Rude #Frightened

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

#Inspirational #Strength #Strong

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

#World #Woe #Causes

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
-- Vernon Howard

#Truth #Honesty #Doors

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.
-- Vernon Howard

#Letting Go #Journey #Venture

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
-- Vernon Howard

#Challenges #Feelings #Way

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.
-- Vernon Howard

#Goal #Creative #Feelings

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

#Thinking #Years #Treasure

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

#Running #Movement #Walks

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.
-- Vernon Howard

#Self #Giving #Brave

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
-- Vernon Howard

#Self #Self Knowledge #Great Power

To change what you get you must change who you are.
-- Vernon Howard

#Change #Who You Are

There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature. You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
-- Vernon Howard

#Reality #Self #Way

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
-- Vernon Howard

#Matter #Viewpoints #Truth Is

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
-- Vernon Howard

#Success #Fighting #Way

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.
-- Vernon Howard

#Motivational #Book #Reading

A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.
-- Vernon Howard

#Running #Night #Imagination

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 Howard

#Movement #Outcomes #Bitterness

You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If you don't like your headquarters, you can move any time you like. Break away. Don't tell anyone about it. Others will either smile tolerantly or mouth sanctimonious babble. Make your escape plans in secret. Never mind if you lose certain friends, you will find others who also have dared. They will be ten-thousand times more valuable to you.
-- Vernon Howard

#Moving #Secret #Mind

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

#Prison #Can Not

Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.
-- Vernon Howard

#Loneliness #Self #Confusion

How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that.
-- Vernon Howard

#Inspirational #Hurt #Fear

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
-- Vernon Howard

#Understanding #Negative #Emotion

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
-- Vernon Howard

#Freedom #Conscious

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.
-- Vernon Howard

#Emotional #Feelings #Assumption

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
-- Vernon Howard

#Chosen

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

#Men #Miracle

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
-- Vernon Howard

#Understanding #Slave

Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.
-- Vernon Howard

#Strong #Light #Confusion

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

#Night #Guidance #Heard

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

#Mistake #Creativity #Dark

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

#Heaven #Earth #Building

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
-- Vernon Howard

#People #Half #Want

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

#Thinking #Lasts #Planning

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.
-- Vernon Howard

#Rain #Self #Wind

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.
-- Vernon Howard

#Mind #Trying #Hot

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
-- Vernon Howard

#Perception #Conscious

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

#Believe #Looks #Belief

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
-- Vernon Howard

#Strong #Energy

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
-- Vernon Howard

#Perseverance #Persistence #Boulders

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are....
-- Vernon Howard

#Truth #Imagine

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

#Health #Healing #Yield