Vernon Howard

"Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it."

"Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood."

"To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society."

"We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help."

"Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain."

"If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?"

"Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas."

"When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves."

"The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money."

"Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought."

"Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge."

"You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life."