"Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind……" — Guy Finley
"Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein."
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144 Quotes by Guy Finley
Guy Finley has 144 quotes on this site.
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Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure.…
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Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
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Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is…
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Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
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If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
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What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at…
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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
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Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way…
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Love is effortless attention.
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The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.
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No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.
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The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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