Quote

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Vernon Howard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Life
Succeed
Environment
Happiness
Simple
Success
Consumerism
Need
Succeeded
Needs
Greed
Really
Simplicity

More quotes by Vernon Howard

Image
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Vernon Howard
Image
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
Vernon Howard
Image
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.
Vernon Howard
Image
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
Vernon Howard
Image
You must never fear anything at all.
Vernon Howard
Image
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Vernon Howard
Image
It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
Vernon Howard
Image
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
Vernon Howard
Image
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
Vernon Howard
Image
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
Vernon Howard
Image
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Vernon Howard
Image
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
Vernon Howard
Image
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Vernon Howard
Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
Vernon Howard
Image
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
Vernon Howard
Image
Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.
Vernon Howard
Image
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Vernon Howard
Image
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
Vernon Howard
Image
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
Vernon Howard
Image
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
Vernon Howard