Guy Finley Quotes

Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.

I can take critism, but if it's like 'I don't like you' then I want to know why people don't like me. Why do you hate me? What have I done?

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

It's hard listening to myself.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

I've criticized myself over the years.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.