Bryant H. McGill Quotes

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. Be the patience you seek. Be the tolerance you seek. Be the compassion you seek.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

Acceptance is the road to all change.

Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others. Your hard journey has had a great purpose! Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love. Have faith. A miracle is happening in your life; the miracle of pain is transforming you to your highest self.

Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.

The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

All things are possible through invitation and love.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.