Top 15 Vernon Howard Quotes

God himself has made it possible for you to live without the dark place and the pains that rush out and flood out and take you over. Your choice of wanting to see and work is essential to you if you want to get rid of your feeling of emptiness, of futility. You've lied to yourself and said, 'I know what to do to get rid of the pain.' You've never gotten rid of the pain and that's evidence of self-deceit. You have to stop playing cruel tricks on yourself. So stop. Now.

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.

Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.

Why do you permit a mere word to stand in your way? Forget the word "difficult" and take your next step.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!

We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.

No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.

If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.

If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.

Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Constantly ask yourself, 'What level is above this one?' This makes things different. Take personal problems for example. Problems are not solved by choosing between this and that. The very need to choose indicates misunderstanding. Problems are solved by outgrowing both this and that.

The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.