Finley Quotes

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way. ~ Guy Finley

What, you want me to throw you a pride parade for figuring out you like dudes? I don't give a shit who you fuck, so long as it's not me. ~ Eden Finley

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever. ~ Steve Nash

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you ... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life? ~ Guy Finley

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now. ~ Guy Finley

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. ~ Guy Finley

As they walked, the subtle lamplight of a dirigible washed over them. Finley glanced up, watching the light grow closer, slowly descending from the sky in a whirl of propellers as the ship made its way into the London air dock just a few miles away. How amazing it must be to float so high, to travel so quickly.
Dandy followed her gaze, but they didn't stop walking. "I was up in one of them flyers once," he told her. "I climbed over the rail and hung on to one of the ropes. Freeing it was. I almost let go."
She whipped her head around to gape at him. "The fall would kill you."
He smiled ever so slightly. "Not afore I flew. Worse ways to go. ~ Kady Cross

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life
instead of identifying with the smallness of it
and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it. ~ Guy Finley

Within us - the heart of us, really - is a 'ground' that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring. ~ Guy Finley

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself. ~ Guy Finley

I wondered what Finley would say if she were here. Probably something like, 'Stab him with silver and see if it kills him. ~ Rachel Hawkins

Brix scoffs. "Please."
He lifts his, and holy forking fucknuggets. He has abs on top of his abs.
Super abs.
They could be their own superhero and wear their own cape. ~ Eden Finley

I'm on it"
"Really?"
"I'd love to say I'm doing this because I'm your friend, but honestly? The tought of you having to pretend to be gay for forty-eight hours entertains me immensely. ~ Eden Finley

When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely ... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves. ~ Guy Finley

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal. ~ Guy Finley

You'd think they'd come up with a better headline. How did they miss a pun about being a gay tight end?"
"At least he isn't a wide receiver. ~ Eden Finley

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself. ~ Guy Finley

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining ~ Guy Finley

The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited ... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat. ~ Michael Finley

The wind, my friends, only speaks to madmen - and I heard it call my name. ~ Pierdomenico Baccalario

You can stop me from talking by kissing me." Damon loves my mouth, I'm finding out. And I'm one hundred percent cool with that. ~ Eden Finley

Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules. ~ Martha Finley

And then Finley seized the spindly metal arm attached to her throat. A normal human would have no hope against such strength, but Finley was not normal. She snapped the arm at the elbow joint and then ripped the offending hand from her neck.
Holding the arm by the hand and wrist, she used it to beat the automaton ... ~ Kady Cross

As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ. ~ James Finley

What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced! ~ Guy Finley

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

I lean in and kiss his cheek. "I might keep you. You're good for my ego. ~ Eden Finley

As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable circumstance.
~ Guy Finley

Children learn what they live. ~ Ron Finley

He's so handsome," Phoebe commented just as Finley directed her attention at her.
"Who?" she demanded.
"The Duke of Greythorne," came the reply. "He just left."
She glanced out the window, but all she saw was a tall gentleman with reddish-brown hair and wearing very fashionable clothing as he walked away from her. "Well, he has a tolerable back," she commented drily.
Pheobe snickered. "Looking at his backside are you, Finley? ~ Kady Cross

This disappearance, this annihilation is all a matter of appearances as seen through the eyes of the false self. The annihilation is only apparent, for the self being annihilated is itself only apparent. It is a self without God, that is, a self that can never exist. What is annihilated is our false self, our external self made absolute, the imposter, the mask (persona), the liar we think we are but are not. The annihilation therefore is not annihilation at all, for nothing real or genuine is annihilated. Rather, what is genuine is affirmed as our psychological, historical, social self and placed in its true relationship to God. All that is annihilated is the illusion of the self that cannot bear God's presence, save as an idol fabricated for the ego's own glorification. It is this "self" that is "annihilated" through God's merciful love. The annihilation is merciful for it, in fact, is the antithesis of annihilation. It is rather an obscure, inexplicable foretaste in faith of our final consummation as created persons. It is the mystery of the cross creatively at work in the foundations of consciousness, recreating our awareness that we might know God as he knows himself. ~ James Finley

As she hangs out the window her husband walks below, but her husband hadn't memorized her shadow and she didn't know how to wear perfume. ~ Karen Finley

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control. ~ Moses Finley

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done ... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do. ~ Guy Finley

With Fresh Healthy Vending growing by the day, my role is ever-evolving, just as the company is, and I intend to take on any necessary responsibilities in order to make a positive impact and spread a message we all believe in so strongly. ~ Steve Finley

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

You don't look so special"
"You're looking in the wrong place," he replied with a hint of a smile. "Look into my eyes. ~ Kady Cross

Griffin had to get to the bottom of these automaton attacks. He couldn't ignore them just because Finley Jayne posed such an intriguing problem in such a pretty package.
And she was pretty - even when off her rocker. In that respect, she was every bit as dangerous as Aunt Cordelia seemed to think.
It was a good thing, then, that he enjoyed a little danger now and again. ~ Kady Cross

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself ... then your love is incomplete. ~ Guy Finley

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

I'm planning to jump in headfirst with my eyes closed and hope for the best. I'm acting instead of wishing for more, and I want you to do it with me."
I swallow hard and force myself to say the words I've been too scared to admit. "Because I love you. ~ Eden Finley

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. ~ Guy Finley

All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence, the humility, the detachment, the purity of heart and the indifference which are required if the inner self is to make some shy, unpredictable manifestation of his presence.11 ~ James Finley

To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention. ~ Guy Finley

A man is a beautiful thing, a very beautiful thing. But some men forget this. And sometimes they try to keep other men captive. They buy and sell people, as if human beings are no more than cattle. But only a fool believes he can really own another man, and only a fool will try. Mr. Finley may own my body, but I have a heart and I have a mind, and he can never own these. Inside of me, I'm too powerful to be owned by anyone. Inside, I am like the sun. ~ Stacy Chbosky

Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time. ~ Guy Finley

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete. ~ Michael Finley

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. ~ Guy Finley

We are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it. ~ Guy Finley

We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service. ~ Guy Finley

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. ~ Guy Finley

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. ~ Moses Finley

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence. ~ Guy Finley

Wake up, show up. ~ Jeff Finley

Babe."
I turn to Damon. Did he just call me -
"You weren't answering to your name. Matt's gone. You wanna …?" He tips his head in the direction of Noah's front door.
I scramble to my feet so fast everyone finds it comical, but I don't care. Damon and I will be back at my apartment in twenty minutes - tops. ~ Eden Finley

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise. ~ Guy Finley

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?" ~ Guy Finley

What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being? ~ Guy Finley

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears. ~ Guy Finley

My eyes narrow. "But?"
"No but. You're my best friend." Tears pool in her eyes.
"Are you dying?"
She shoves me. "I can't be serious every once in a while?"
"No.
"Whatever, I hate you again."
"There's my Stacey ~ Eden Finley

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it. ~ Guy Finley

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment. ~ Guy Finley

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it. ~ Guy Finley

Don't cry, Treasure. You'll get me all wet and then I'll melt. I'm made of sugar, don't you know. ~ Kady Cross

I'm enjoying his shortness of breath and his moans as I kiss his skin. I like exploring his hardened body, because I've never experienced it before. It's new and exciting and hotter than I ever anticipated. ~ Eden Finley

Who would've thought the thing we had in common would be daddy issues" I try to joke. ~ Eden Finley

I've seen your dad on TV. I don't know how to say this without offending you, so I'm just going to say he looks like the type of politician who spouts family values and then gets caught in a seedy motel with a prostitute."
I laugh. "SO glad you tried not to offend me, Jet. ~ Eden Finley

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself. ~ Guy Finley

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need. ~ Guy Finley

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded. ~ Guy Finley

Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you. ~ Guy Finley

That's simple. I want you to kiss me. So start there. ~ Eden Finley

Tesla might not have invented a machine for going back in time, but Griffin thought he'd just found a way to stop it. ~ Kady Cross

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. ~ Guy Finley

One event that is both history and myth is the rain of blood around the year 1000 in Aquitaine and elsewhere in France. Reports exist from the early eleventh century of a blood rain that "fell upon the clothes of many men, and so stained them with gore that they shuddered at the sight of their own garments and tore them off." Fulbert of Chartres wrote that account in a letter to King Robert of France, after the worried king received a report from Duke William V about a rain of blood that fell in Aquitaine. Scientists today believe that historical reports of blood rain may have been due to dust containing iron oxide, ~ Joseph Finley

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self. ~ Guy Finley

I'm pretty sure decapitation wouldn't get us out of patrol."
I smiled, which earned me a glare from Finley. "I know it must be an adjustment after having faeries, or whatever, do your dirty work for you, but this is how we do things here," she said, shoving a black backpack at me.
"Please. You must never have met a faerie if you think they do anything dirty," I replied.
"We've met plenty of faeries," Finley snapped, but her shoulders were up around her ears, and Izzy shot her a curious look. Whatever. I had enough family drama of my own to deal with. But then I reminded myself that technically, Izzy and Finley were my family. Demons on one side, Prodigium on the other. Was it any wonder I was so screwed up?
Finley turned to face the door, which was bolted with several different locks. I watched her spin the dial on two, open another with a key she wore around her neck, ad unhook a latch at the top.
"Man, I bet it takes you forever to get into your lockers," I joked. ~ Rachel Hawkins

A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies ... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light. ~ Guy Finley

My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days. ~ Chris O'Donnell

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it. ~ Guy Finley

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing. ~ Guy Finley

When the Nazis took Paris, the director of the Toledo Museum of Art wrote to David Finley, director of the not yet opened National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to encourage the creation of a national plan, saying, I know [the possibility of invasion] is remote at the moment, but it was once remote in France. ~ Robert M. Edsel

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

Real achievement
the true measure of how far we have advanced in life
is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us. ~ Guy Finley

Her color was high and her brown eyes were shining. Her gorgeous red hair was a thick mass of curls that fell down her back. She looked like a painting, fragile, caught in a moment she couldn't get out of. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.. ~ Guy Finley

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life. ~ Guy Finley

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature. ~ Guy Finley

The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be. ~ Guy Finley

Finely blinked, "Griffin?"
"That's my girl." He murmured in a low tone, so no one but her could hear. Then, as the crowd drew too close, he swept her away, ~ Kady Cross

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies. ~ Guy Finley

Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait ... and peace will appear. ~ Guy Finley