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Vernon Howard - 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle

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Recently I found Vernon Howard and started reading his book: 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle. Its a collection of short quotes, but some of them are really deep and insightful. Wanted to share some of my favorites so far:

15. Humanity rejects truth, like a hungry man who refuses bread because his dizzy mind thinks it is wood.

19. When someone lacks the intelligence to try to understand he covers it up by criticizing.

30. Imaginary life has great power to control and wreck people because it insists it is not imaginary life.

36. Society will always deceive you when you ask it, "What is life all about?"

43. Immature man is like a frightened child, alone in a darkening room, not seeing the nearby light switch.

54. A man's failure to question the ideas by which he lives keeps his life as it is.

 


“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”

― Charles Bukowski

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