235 Quotes by Guy Finley

The only reason your mind won’t stop its endless chattering is because you won’t stop listening to it!

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.

Life isn’t a race to win, it’s a school for our higher education.

Real achievement – the true measure of how far we have advanced in life – is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don’t believe it.

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

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.

Each time that you don’t know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

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