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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
Effort
Success

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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 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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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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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Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
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It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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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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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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