Inspirational Quotes from Vernon Howard:
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- Permitting your life to be taken over by another person is like letting the waiter eat your dinner.
- Find yourself, for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
- Some people prolong their unhappiness by dramatizing it, which is like expecting applause for having a headache.
- Growing up into the fullness of inner strength is as exciting as seeking gold and as rewarding as finding it.
- A warring world has no power to injure your real nature any more than darkness can shake a tree.
- We are rewarded according to personal effort, like a man who is given as much land as he can walk over during a day.
- Talking about love does not make a man loving any more than talking about sugar makes him a slice of cake.
- Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
- Danger recognized as danger is not hazardous, as with a sailor who sights and steers away from rocks in the sea.
- A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
- Remove the dark cloud of negative thought, and the guiding star of understanding brightly appears.
- People worry over the absence of worry, which is like thinking that the end of the storm means the end of the sky.
- Man is like a lost tourist who has forgotten he has a map in his pocket which can direct him to his hotel.
- If you can talk a monkey out of a banana you can talk logic with someone whose self-interest rejects logic.
- 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.
- Thinking that stubborn beliefs can give us a new life is like watching a stone statue, hoping it will move.
- Life is never too tough for your higher self, any more than a rock is too much for a river.
- Talking to the average man about something higher than sex and money is like talking to a rabbit about a rainbow.
- Like an army doctor treating enemy soldiers, truth is patient and kindly toward the parts of us which resist correction.
- When sad, we need only realize that we are in the wrong place internally, like a lark that belongs in the sky, not in a cage.
- Just as a single wave is powered by the entire ocean, a sincere mind has vast resources at its command.
- You can refuse entrance to unhappy moods, but you must be alert, just as you might close a window at the first sign of rain.
- We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.
- It is as possible to be pleasantly alone with yourself while surrounded by a crowd as it is to walk alone in the peaceful woods.
- The truly happy man is one who feels no different when the party ends than he did while it was going on.
- Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
- Men who fall from a canoe while standing up to attract attention always claim someone pushed them.
- Like helpful librarians who aid your search for books, higher powers do for you what you cannot do for yourself.
- Your life makes sense when you don't need other people to confirm that it does, which is the true independence of a soaring eagle.
- The difference between living under your own power and under the power of social influence is the difference between songs and tears.
- Just as a piano responds to the touch of a musician, a sincere request for solutions will always be answered from a higher source.
- Right daily decisions are as simple as smiling, once you see the difference between natural and artificial needs.
- The more you let other people tell you how to sail your boat, the less the boat belongs to you.
- Loneliness is an impostor who makes you feel far apart from life, but you can see beyond it to happily find yourself approaching home.
- Just as there are millions of unseen stars, there are endless inner riches for you to discover.
- Foolishness is simply the nervous preference for wrong ideas, like a sailor anxiously hugging a broken compass.
- It is no more necessary to live at the mercy of mental howls than it is needful to live next door to a zoo.
- Inner correction guarantees outer correction, just as a repaired clock makes its hands go right.
- Your true nature never needs to anxiously prove itself to others, but lives in calm command, like a popular king.
- Healing finally comes to the sincere seeker, like a sick man who awakens in the morning to find himself cured.
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