More Quotes by Vernon Howard
You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
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.
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.
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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.
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.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
