Guy Finley Quotes

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.

I think it's only through learning, and doing something uncomfortable, that you can actually change. That's why I wanted to do a play. I was so scared of it and I knew my brain would really be stretched and it was going to be hard. And it was hard and uncomfortable. Instead of naturally wanting to avoid all those feelings I need to lean toward them more. But saying that, don't ask me to make a lasagna or a Coq au vin.

If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it.

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.

We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.