Free Inspirational Quotes and Self-Help Self-Improvement Quotations Newsletter featuring Guy Finley

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"How strange it is that we resent carrying on our backs the pointed opinion of others, when it is we who give this barbed thought its power to trouble us. Think not? Then let us ask: what possible suffering can there be in what another thinks of me, unless I am holding the same thought as he?"

"The secret of higher success is to make impersonal those times when we stumble or fall, whereas to take failure personally is to lose sight of the one Great Lesson that Life would have us learn: there is no "self" to fail (at anything) -- only a certain level of understanding not as yet adequate to the task set before it. To know this truth helps us transcend not only the trials we must face, but it also empowers us to detect and drop those painful parts of ourselves that love to sit in judgment of everything!"

"Whenever we can remember that we would rather smile about what life brings us than suffer over it -- that our natural preference is happiness, not hurtfulness -- then in such moments of being mindful of what we love most... can't we also strive to remember how much better it is, for everyone, to brighten the life of another rather than to darken it in our forgetfulness?"

"You have triumphed at life's game when -- no matter win or lose in the eyes of the world -- you can walk away from any demanding moment with a measure of more true self-understanding than you took into it."

"In time, life makes momentary rulers of us all; but only the one who learns to rule himself loses nothing when kingdoms fade away, as they must!"

"Whenever we ask another to help us with a challenge that we must face -- before we've done all we can on our own -- we rob ourselves of realizing this priceless understanding: The higher powers we need to transcend our troubles are given to us, but only as we awaken to our need for them, and stand willing to receive them not in glory, but in humility."

"Only the person who never gives up in life, who persists with his wish to find and fulfill the promise of himself, makes this truly self-liberating discovery: those places that he once mistook as being impassible barriers to his happiness become as bridges to the same, but only if he learns to welcome them as part of his journey."

"Either we learn what it means to lead by example, or we are lounge chair leaders who have deceived ourselves into believing that our ability to criticize those who go before us is the same as having reached the top of the mountain before them!"

"The reward of being True to ourselves becomes more and more apparent as we realize that most of the fears that stalk us are created by us when we are false to others, or to ourselves; too late we discover that to compromise our own integrity is the same as forsaking our wish to be fearless and free."

"Just as an acorn that goes unplanted in the earth can never realize its destiny to become a mighty oak, so it holds with any Real Spiritual Principle that we unearth in our journey through this life: only those Truths developed in us -- by reason of our work to see that they take root in the ground of our soul -- are empowered to grant us the strength, shelter, and sustenance of their eternal Life."

"The secretly punishing effect of our struggle to be seen as "great" -- of wanting to be "first" in the eyes of others -- is a self-inflicted pain born of resenting, and then rejecting, all those who don't share our vision of perfection!"

"Wishing for freedom is like wishing on a star: until we learn what it means to personally reach out and help produce that brighter world we envision for ourselves and others, we remain little more than armchair architects -- those who believe that merely dreaming of a world without fear and hatred is the same as building one."

"Seeking the approval of others -- in the hope of measuring the worth of ourselves -- makes as much sense as looking for our reflection in a falling drop of rain, with the main difference being this: A raindrop actually lasts longer than does that fleeting sense of self we win for having sold our soul for another empty smile."

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