Vernon Howard

"Don’t be afraid to let go of this acquired, invented identity; this false feeling of ‘I.’ That is like being afraid to let go of a headache. That is what the imaginary ‘I’ is—one great big headache."

- Vernon Howard

"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."

- Vernon Howard

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

- Vernon Howard

"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will."

- Vernon Howard

"Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so."

- Vernon Howard

"To change what you get, you must change who you are."

- Vernon Howard

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

- Vernon Howard

"A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like."

- Vernon Howard