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More Quotes by Vernon Howard
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 can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
