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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

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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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Truth

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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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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 must never fear anything at all.
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Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.
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A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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The problem is not what other people think, do or say it is your reaction.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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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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Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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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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We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
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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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