Guy Finley Quotes

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

I've realised I can be happy.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.