Vernon Howard Quotes

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

When my inner mood is positive, I also feel great on the outside.

Fight with a happy heart.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.

We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.