More Quotes by Vernon Howard
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.
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.
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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.
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
