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More Quotes by Vernon Howard
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
