Vernon Howard Quotes

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

I want people to find their inner depth.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

I discovered myself!

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.