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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
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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.
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No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people it is your reaction.
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
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It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
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