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Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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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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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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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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The problem is not what other people think, do or say it is your reaction.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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