"Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts……" — Guy Finley
"Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?""
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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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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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