Words matter. These are the best Vernon Howard Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten – and sometimes destroy – mankind’s peace and prosperity.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis – it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy – to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.
Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you’ll do is fall down and worship it.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Problems are cured by facing their cause.
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.
The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner’s history.
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
