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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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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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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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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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 reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
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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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It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
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It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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