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It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
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Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.
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Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.
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Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.
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Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.
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The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: Is this what I really want?
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The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
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Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.
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You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
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The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.
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Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.
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The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
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