Quotes by Brian Germain

"Most people do safe things dangerously to get a rush. I prefer to do dangerous things safely."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"The stock market is merely a reflection of the emotion of the times. All emotions can be improved upon, as how we feel is a choice about what we give our attention to. "What is" does not have to be the only focus of attention."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"When we transform our fears into our concerns, we flow in a river of solutions."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"Happiness will always be the best defense against danger."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"The pursuit of mastery within the realm of risk is where we stoke the fire of the human spirit."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"A life with too much risk is often too short, but a life without risk is no life at all."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"Life is fear versus trust! Fear brings us less of what we hate and none of what we love. Trust brings us some of what we hate and everything that we love!"
--Brian Stuart Germain

"One cannot simultaneously prepare for the worst case scenario and the best case scenario."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"Abbreviated Owner's Manual for the mind: If you are not enjoying the thoughts that are in your head, change them, before they change you. You are what you think."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"Fear is an alarm, not a defense.Alarms alone don't save lives; clear-headed choices do."
--Brian Stuart Germain

"If it doesn't feel good, you aren't doing it right."
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Fearless conviction to a good idea is the way of genius.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Invest in happiness. It pays bigger returns than fear.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Do not be afraid of success if you want to experience it.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Fear is like a good friend who chooses a path that you would not choose to walk. You do not judge them. You do not join them. You just love them and go your own way.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Whatever life hands you, there is a better way to see it than the way you see things when you first look. Your fear has shown up because you are thinking about the negative possibilities that you saw in your first glance at the situation. When you are on the lookout for how things are going to get better, you are more likely to find success.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“The process of transcending fear is the business of happiness itself.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“I love humans, even when we are scared and selfish, we are able to shake it off and do the right thing. Unarguably, we are far easier to appreciate when we are aren’t being shmucks to each other, but the amount of love that we radiate into the universe is greater than the amount of fear. The best part is, the love-level is still climbing.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Fear limits the expansion of the human heart, and the degree to which its intentions are carried out. I am therefore against it.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“What if everything was going to be ok? What would that look like? Are you brave enough to think in that direction until it is reality?”
-Brian Stuart Germain

‘Until you have the courage to let yourself surrender to the brave task of envisioning the story of things going well, you are destined to walk another path. The body cannot go where the mind has not gone first.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“When you remember how lovable the human species can be, you will stop fearing them and start believing in them.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“You can let go of the fear that you are the only one who is freaking out.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Surrendering to thinking something other than the valid reasons to worry;
this is the art of being happy.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“The process of relaxing is the process of rejoining with the best version of you, and all the good that it entails. Every deep breath is sacred. Every grin is a star being born.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Love always eventually triumphs over fear, although sometimes you have to be a little patient. The worse anything gets, the greater the pull in the other direction. It is the physics of the universe. Things eventually get better.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“If you consider what modern quantum physics is saying about the nature of matter itself, you will inevitably draw the conclusion that you are more in control over your life than you ever thought possible, in more ways than you previously believed. Once you accept this, all you need to do is shed your resistance, and any experience is within your reach.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“If you can’t see how ridiculous you look when you are afraid, you cannot step out of the experience. If, however, you realize that you were just thinking in the wrong direction, you will just laugh and look the other way.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“All you need to do in order to shed your fear is start looking for the way, and never look back. Flip your fear upside down, laugh at it, love it to death, and do what the specific distaste suggests in terms of action for improvement.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Although we have learned how to be nice through some painful lessons, the good deeds of the human species far outweigh the messes we have made.
Our love trumps our stupidity.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Fear is just a poke that points you in the direction you want to go. It is only when we poke back that things get ugly.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“If our goal is to be happy, then fear is clearly counter to that goal, because it makes us feel lousy. Fear is the exact opposite of happiness.”
-Brian Start Germain

“I love witnessing people acting heroically. They see the big picture, act with their hearts, and ignore their previous programming. This is called doing the right thing. It is when humanity shows its true nature.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Getting your panties in a bunch is not the way to get you where you want to go. That comes from having a good time along the way.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“I choose to focus on all the good things that humanity has achieved throughout our journey on this earth, and so I do not fear for our future.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“We are the most insightful species on this planet. We are the ones who will fix everything, little by little, and continue on the infinite path toward better. It’s what we do.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“We are the guardians of the earth, and we are still learning how to do that. When we are stricken with fear about the seemingly monumental task of maintaining the homeostasis of an entire world, all we need do is remember how good things actually are flowing all on their own, and focus our energy on being thankful. That is how we connect with the many solutions facing our planet.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“When we are alone, we are filled with fear of commitment.
When we are in love, we fear the loss of what we have.
When we are poor, we fear success.
When we are wealthy, we fear becoming impoverished.”

When we enjoy being alone, we don’t worry about commitment.
When we enjoy being in love, we have no time to think about the relationship ending.
When we stop making our lack of money a reason to be unhappy,
we celebrate simplicity,
When we are thankful for our abundance, our inner feeling of worthiness
allows it to continue.”
-BSG

“Fear is the very bottom of the emotional scale. It is the sub-basement of the soul. Fortunately, Love is an elevator that goes all the way to the top floor.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Money is just another reflection of the universal battle between love and fear. It is the choice of the storyteller to either weave a tale about how well things are going versus the story about how we are going broke.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“If you are afraid to be yourself, you can’t sell anybody anything, because you are nobody.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“A sigh of relief is the sound of things getting better.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“If you are less afraid of running out of money than you are excited about being successful, you are on your way.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“When your resistance to love is set aside, you are your true self.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“All over the world, ordinary people are choosing fearless freedom over restriction. It is the quickening of humanities’ journey from doing what we are told is right, to feeling what is right and acting upon that. It is the leaving behind of things we don’t actually believe in favor of things that we know to be true in our hearts. This is the dawning of the Age of Heroism, the time of inner freedom.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“The process of working with your fear is the most important work you are doing on this planet. It is how you peel back the layers of culture and false beliefs about yourself, and allow your inner groovy to spill forth.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

‘Hate is just another aversion that is easily dissolved in a moment of love. Humanity is capable of showing true compassion in a single instant, because the desire to do good was there along, waiting for an opportunity to come out. We are all heroes waiting for our moment in the sun.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“The problem that keeps coming up is the fact that we are often too cranky to seize the moment when it comes. When we waste our time bitching, we get in our own way of being as amazing as we intended to be.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“The worse it gets, the better it will feel when it stops sucking.”
-BSG

“You cannot let your reasons for being freaked out freak you out.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“It is in the moments when we are lost in negative experience that we require the memory of what it is like to be happier than this.
Once you accept that,
things are inevitably going to get better.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Daring to feel compassion and help others is a sure sign of fearlessness.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“You must find your own way back to happiness, since it is always you who sent you away in the first place. When you decide to let go of your fear of what everybody else will think if you are happier than they are, you will tap into the never-ending source of life energy called fearless joy. When you shine that light on someone you deem worthy of your love, you earn your keep in this world.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“Fearless love is the highest attainment of life on this planet or any other.”
--Brian Stuart Germain

“I want to help people become happier and less limited by fear. I love how beautiful our species can be when we are not driven by fear, and so learning and sharing the many ways out of fear is therefore my ultimate goal in life. “
--Brian Stuart Germain

“When we think with our hearts, we are fearless in a way that goes beyond the physical bravery of a mountain climber, pilot or soldier. When we do what is right, despite our knowledge of the dangers, we are being who we were meant to be.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“You know you can be more than this. You have seen your true colors. All you need to do is look away from your fear, and let your freak flag fly.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“If you know that you want a garden, and your homeowner’s association tells you that you are not allowed to have one, you have two choices. You can lie down and let things be as they are, and in avoiding confrontation, you sacrifice your freedom. That is what most people will do. This is the way of fear. The more powerful choice is to ignore what other people will do, and plant your seeds anyway. The way of fearlessness is the way of true freedom.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Does anything feel better than reexamining your aversions and finding gems within them?”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“You are brilliant, creative, and based in absolute freedom. It is time to rise up and be the full self that your old self could not hold within it. It was just too small a container. Your true nature is expanding all the time, and at some point you have to go with freedom. When you realize who you really are, it is the only choice.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Fear is deadly. No emotion creates more stagnation when action is needed. No feeling is more detrimental to social interaction. No thought-pattern leads us farther from love.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Humanity is faced with a choice. On one hand we have fear, and on the other we have love. Which one you choose in each moment determines who you are becoming. Each act is another opportunity to show your inner beauty.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“There are a great many reasons to feel fear, and most of them are valid. The belief in the beneficiality of the thoughts that fear leads us to is the real fallacy.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“The Inner You is not in question. It never was. You are perfect just as you are. The problem comes when you conform through fear, and act in a manner contrary to who you really are and what you truly believe in. This is the root of all illness and suffering in the world. When you let yourself flow with the nature of your true self, all is absolutely well.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“When faced with a big decision, fear will always present an option that feels safer, but leads you away from the right path. Even when a course correction is necessary, it is not your fear that guides you, it is your wisdom to know the way. Wisdom is not born in fear, it is born in self love.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Inner peace does not come from external circumstances, but in a choice to allow the feeling of relief, regardless of the circumstances.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“A society’s relationship to fear and risk is what determines its overall success. A brave culture that strives for all that is right will not dwell on the possible consequences to failure, but instead focuses its attention on the sole prospect of reaching for something better.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“We are brave. It is who we are. To act differently would be contrary to our true nature. When we act meekly, the source of our pain is the comparison between who we really are and who we are being. Nothing causes more suffering and depression than knowing that you can be larger than you are being.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“You do not need to reach for what you believe in, it is your right as a sentient being. You are free to choose another way. But when you have had enough of the inner turmoil that comes along with taking the cowardly path, you will realize that the brave way is the only you. You’ve just got to be you.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“The longer you live outside of your ideals, the more you are able to love life when your surrender to being who you really are. Appreciation comes from contrast. The backdrop of distaste is the only way in which we learn the truth. Repulsion always bears the gift of clarity.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Even in the hardest times, it is our fear that keeps us from coming together and doing what most needs to be done: Pot-luck suppers and singing songs in the darkness. When you fearlessly open yourself to your subsistence community, you find everything you need. Rock Soup, baby.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Are the opinions of others more important than allowing you to be you? Although most of us do not believe that we are driven by our fear of what others think, the vast majority is in strict conformance with the norm. Someone is lying to themselves, and its not the weirdoes.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Even one who has been driven by fear their entire lives can make a choice to turn the corner and shake off the old ways of worry. It is just a shift in thought. We are always free to do whatever makes the most sense.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“It is not the altitude that gets a skydiver to that feeling, it is their fearless surrender to joy.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Happiness is the solution to fear.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“The feeling of relief is always the first step away from negative emotion and toward joy.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Surrendering to the process of getting happier is always a heroic act, especially when you are surrounded by people who are not currently happy.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Daring to be happy enough to annoy the miserable folks is one of the healthiest goals in life.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Mood is the only thing that appears to really matter in life.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“If you are driven by fear, you can only discover and create more things that make you afraid.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Daring to stand up or something that you believe in is what adventure sports train us for.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Adventure People get used to ignoring their fear and doing what needs to be done, the right way.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“I believe that evolution once favored the brave for their strength and their willingness to fight for survival. Those days are mostly in the past. Now the game has shifted to a different kind of bravery, what might be called Heroism of the Heart. Connecting and cooperating with other people, and daring to share how we really feel, these are the things that will show up most in humanities’ future as "Beneficial Adaptations". In this next phase of human evolution, love will be selected as the most desirable of traits.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Love is the most heroic pursuit that we will ever undertake.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Daring to thrive in the context of others suffering, this is bravery.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Your past is unchangeable, and from a certain perspective, so is your present. It is only your future that is within your control. Dream it bravely.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“If you aren't afraid, you aren't expanding.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Who are you when you forget your fear?”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Doing something dangerous that does not scare us is not true bravery. It is when we forge ahead despite our personal panic alarms that makes us heroes.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Real love is the unconditional experience of limitless compassion that comes as a result of focusing on the most positive aspects of another person. As we give our undivided attention to their beauty and brilliance, we magnify it, and they shine even brighter. This is how fearless love can transcend all difficulties.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Love, wherever it goes, leads us in the direction of more of itself.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“It may be so that there is much to fear, but if we fearlessly band together and help each other out, there is no need to be afraid.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“A deep slow breath followed by a relief-filled smile seems to be the solution to all of life's obstructions.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Love is the cause of both fear and heroism.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“In the process of visualizing the specifics of things going as well as possible for ourselves and for the ones we love, we find ourselves thinking brave, clear thoughts. This is the limb of honesty that love drives us out upon, with its uncompromising drive toward what is best. It is the cause of all human bravery.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Until you have the courage to let yourself surrender to the brave task of envisioning the story of things going well, you are destined to walk another path. The body cannot go where the mind has not gone first.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“I think that all the world's suffering and confusion could easily be abated if each one of us would take five minutes a day to go sit on a rock and smile.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Fear is simply staring in a direction you didn't want to go anyway.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Isn't it funny that we find it harder to share our joy than it is to complain about things? The dominant conversation might be bitching, but what fuels us for to create more joy is the celebration of the positive aspects of our reality. Let them whine, and go be the celebrator you were meant to be.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“Loving life requires us to push into the realms that provoke our fear, and when we focus on the joy of the process, the lemon is always worth the squeeze.”
-Brian Stuart Germain

“When you remember that everything is on it's way to better, you will take a deep breath, let go of your stuggle and allow your inner smile to light the way to your inner truth.”
-Brian Stuart Germain