“Don’t think that you must involve yourself with complex intellectual philosophies. Don’t try to be profound or educated. That only wears you… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he… — Vernon Howard Happiness Copy Share Image
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. — Vernon Howard Approval Copy Share Image
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side. — Vernon Howard Dark Copy Share Image
Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a… — Vernon Howard Child Copy Share Image
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great… — Vernon Howard Change Copy Share Image
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you… — Vernon Howard Action Copy Share Image
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are… — Vernon Howard Action Copy Share Image
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting… — Vernon Howard Action Copy Share Image
Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all… — Vernon Howard Evil Copy Share Image
The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness. — Vernon Howard Freedom Copy Share Image
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire… — Vernon Howard Desire Copy Share Image
It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher… — Vernon Howard Animal Copy Share Image
You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same… — Vernon Howard Awakening Copy Share Image
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. — Vernon Howard Behavior Copy Share Image
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else. — Vernon Howard Acceptance Copy Share Image
