Vernon Howard Quotes

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Life, Success

  Tags in Need, Succeeded

• 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.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hot, Mind

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypnotic, Feelings

• We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Touched, Freedom

• We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slaves, Whatever

• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Chosen, Exactly

• We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, See

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Viewpoint, Matter

• To change what you get you must change who you are.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change

• Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Carefully, Study

• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Negativity, Whatever

• Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Away, Freedom

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

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Imagine

• Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Door, Honest

• It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opposition, True

• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Begin

• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Permanently, Anything

• Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Asset, Deep

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  Vernon Howard

  Tags in Unconscious, Unseen

• A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

  Vernon Howard

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Negative

Vernon Howard (21)

Birth:	16th March, 1918
Death:	23rd August, 1992
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Philosopher

About

Vernon Linwood Howard was an American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher. Howard was born near Haverhill, Massachusetts and began his writing career, in the 1940s, as an author of humor and children's books. He began speaking on the principles of personal development in the late 1950s while living in southern California.

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