Top 120 Guy Finley Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.”

— Guy Finley

102. “Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.”

— Guy Finley

103. “See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn’t work. Dare to let go and you won’t lose a thing except for a punishing idea.”

— Guy Finley

104. “The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.”

— Guy Finley

105. “Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.”

— Guy Finley

106. “Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else’s body!”

— Guy Finley

107. “Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.”

— Guy Finley

108. “An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.”

— Guy Finley

109. “Real freedom isn’t subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.”

— Guy Finley

110. “Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.”

— Guy Finley

111. “If you love getting gifts – and who doesn’t – then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.”

— Guy Finley

112. “No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!”

— Guy Finley

113. “If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.”

— Guy Finley

114. “Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.”

— Guy Finley

115. “Trying to change ourselves in order to please others – so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval – is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.”

— Guy Finley

116. “The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won’t spill your coffee!”

— Guy Finley

117. “Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur...”

— Guy Finley

118. “Listening to your own mind gives you “good reasons” why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it’s funny to find new ways to hurt you!”

— Guy Finley

119. “We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.”

— Guy Finley

120. “What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?”

— Guy Finley

121. “Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you’ve been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.”

— Guy Finley

122. “Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.”

— Guy Finley

123. “Don’t believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living – they lie.”

— Guy Finley

124. “The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.”

— Guy Finley

125. “One of the most important rules for me is: Don’t ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.”

— Guy Finley

126. “Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.”

— Guy Finley

127. “Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.”

— Guy Finley

128. “The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.”

— Guy Finley

129. “Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you’re still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.”

— Guy Finley

130. “Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion.”

— Guy Finley

131. “Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you’re in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender.”

— Guy Finley

132. “It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.”

— Guy Finley

133. “It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.”

— Guy Finley

134. “Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.”

— Guy Finley

135. “If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.”

— Guy Finley

136. “The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember – before we act – that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.”

— Guy Finley

137. “What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn’t happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.”

— Guy Finley

138. “Our problem is that we’re sure we have to do something to be free. Strangely enough, the only thing between us and a life without limits is this mistaken idea.”

— Guy Finley

139. “Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.”

— Guy Finley