214 Quotes by Vernon Howard

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.

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.

Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.

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.

The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.

Doing good to someone in order to reduce self-guilt will only ruin things for both of you.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives.

The true way of knowing yourself includes neither self-praise nor self-blame, but only a wise silence.

Rushing emotions have no more real power to sweep you away than a tiny brook can move a boulder.