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Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Your life belongs to you, not to the demands of others, and when you see this fully, their demands are powerless.
Duty |
Citizens, in the future there shall be neither darkness nor thunderbolts, neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood... In the future no man will slay his fellow, the earth will be radiant, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, that day when all shall be concord, harmony, light, joy, and life.
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
True encouragement occurs when you hear a truth you already knew faintly.
Future |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Behavior | Friend | Life | Life | Present | Thinking | Leadership | Learn |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
The ring of truth is inside every man. And this is not something merely metaphysical or philosophical. It is a practical fact. If a man learns to listen, if he refuses to be lured away by false sounds, he will find his way home. The ring of truth will always be recognized by the man who listens. And every man has the capacity to listen and follow.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Consolation | Future |
That which separates man from the brute is the notion of good and evil.... Hence that great and twofold sentiment in man of his liberty and his responsibility. He can be good or he can be wicked. That is an account he will have to settle. He can be guilty; and that — it is a striking fact, and one upon which I insist — is his greatness.
The good opinion of a superior man arms one with fresh strength and courage against mediocrities.
Future |
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
Future |
The countenance is above all things a reflection, and it is an error to believe that an idea is colorless.
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic the self-transcendence of human existence. It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself--be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
Achievement | Dignity | Happy | Inconsistency | Man | People | Present | Sense | Society | Usefulness | Society | Old | Value |
You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
Envy | Future | Love | People | Reality | Reason | Will | Work |
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
We do not sufficiently reflect on that which is within us and cannot be lost.... Night may become as black as it likes — the spark is still there.
Present |