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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Havens
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Beauty
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Poor
Assets
Sense
Skin
Skins
Valuable

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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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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception hence his delusion.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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