Vernon Howard Quotes

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.

Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I'm letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Look deep inside the eyes of a woman, see the man you want to be.

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Your soul’s desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart.

The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.

As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer need to seek, and solidarity that cannot bear silence. I run to burn up what I don't need and ignite what I do.

It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

When you really believe that you are worthy of the best, that you deserve the best & that there is enough of the best for you to have plenty, there will be no need for you to hold on to what you have. Allow yourself to imagine what your life would be like if your hands and heart were to receive something better than what you are holding onto right now.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.