Vernon Howard Quotes, Thoughts and images
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
To change what you get you must change who you are.
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.