Vernon Howard
Vernon Howard
Vernon Linwood Howardwas an American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 March 1918
CountryUnited States of America
Vernon Howard quotes about
motivational book reading
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.
frustration battle causes
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
prison can-not ifs
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
understanding acquisition
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
emotional feelings assumption
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
truth honesty doors
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
challenges feelings way
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
years feet sensible
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
intelligent agreement people
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
success fighting way
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
honesty healing self
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
change who-you-are
To change what you get you must change who you are.
loneliness self confusion
Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity.
talking people challenges
Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.