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You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

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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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Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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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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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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Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.
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Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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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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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
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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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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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Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
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