Quotes from Vernon Howard

Problems are cured by facing their cause.

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

Genuine effort is success.

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.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.

Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.