Vernon Howard: Quotes about thinking

Vernon Howard was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

Vernon Howard: 106 quotes15 likes

“What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?”

Psycho-Pictography

“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?”

700 Inspiring Guides to a New Life

“If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.”

The Power of Your Supermind

“A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather he seeks for a condition which matches his personal idea regarding the nature of happiness. But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. The is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another. Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness. A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analysing it.”

Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge

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

700 Inspiring Guides to a New Life

“You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.”

Treasury of Positive Answers

“Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.”

Inspire Yourself