Guy Finley Quotes

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

You are.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

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.

You learn to accept your own reality.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

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 think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

People worry about their looks going, but go deeper, and you realise you know yourself more and you're more comfortable in your own skin and more settled within yourself, and that's a really great basis on which to live your life.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that you've been a bad boy or girl, and you may feel terrible about yourself. Your existence may feel wretched, completely pitch-black, like the black hole of Calcutta. Or you may see something good about yourself. The idea is simply to face the facts. Honesty plays a very important part. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.