Vernon Howard

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.

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

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

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

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

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.

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

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

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

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

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.