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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

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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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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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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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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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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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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception hence his delusion.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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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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You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.
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