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Genuine effort is success.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Genuine
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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.
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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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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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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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Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
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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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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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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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The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
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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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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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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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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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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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