Bryant H. McGill famous quotes

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

#Recovery #Loss #People

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Pain #Recovery #Loss

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Recovery #Loss #Soul

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

#Recovery #Loss #Compassion

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Letting Go #Moving #Eye

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

#Intelligent #Errors #Data

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Spiritual #Pain #Healing

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Good Life #Believe #Thinking

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Honesty #Integrity #Love You

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

#Letting Go #Struggle #Giving

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Quitting #Making Time #Motivated

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

#Giving #Needs #Attention

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Upset #Lessons #Awakening

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Crazy #Fall #Mean

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Negativity #Different #Want

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Letting Go #Anxiety #Abundance

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

#Rip #Recovery #Loss

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Prayer #Positive Thinking #Positive Thoughts

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Beautiful #Joy #Soul

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

#Letting Go #Fall #Together

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Love You #People #Awakening

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

#Inspirational #Respect #Listening

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Love #Humility #Moments

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Rudeness #Courtesy #Insufferable

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Bully #Encounters #Worst

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Self #Keep Smiling #Peaceful

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Joy #Quiet #Found

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Humility #Compassion #Expansion

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Identity #Discomfort

Beautiful food and health are priceless.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Beautiful #Wellness #Priceless

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Honor #Matter #Action

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

#Issues #Feelings #Looks

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Mistake #Progress #Literature

Acceptance is the road to all change.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Recovery #Acceptance #Loss

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Sarcastic #Laughter #Laughing

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Ambition #Men #Doe

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Self #Plot #Purpose

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Able #Comfort #Literature

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Disappointment #Father #People

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Children #Self #People

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Beautiful #Hurt #Mean

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Progress #Path #Impossible

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

#Communication #Essentials #Conflict

Love and respect changes everything.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Love And Respect

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Competition #Principles #Cooperation

Love only serves and does not calculate.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Doe

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Strong Women #Strong #Leader

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Kindness #Empathy

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Motivational #Moving On #Letting Go

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Crow

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Heart #Essentials

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Creating

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Hate #Taught

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Enemy #Literature #Authority

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Wise #Literature #Fruit

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

#Being Yourself #Thinking #Lessons

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Hate #Media #Body

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Philosophy #Writing #Literature

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Trying #Enforcement #Way

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Being Yourself #Real #Thinking

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Beauty #Beautiful #Long

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Needs

Dare to love every person, including yourself. Become the energy of love.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Energy #Dare #Persons

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind. It leads you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Beautiful #Simple #Journey

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Giving #Chance #Given

You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Blessed #Realizing #Being Blessed

As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Heart #Flying #Soar

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Ideas #Open Minded

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

#Fire #Illumination #Darkness

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Struggle #Epic #Self

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Commitment #Successful #Simple

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Country #Extremes #Nationalism

Your attitudes contain your future.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Attitude #Your Future #Our Future

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Real

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Beautiful #Love Yourself #Something Beautiful

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Never Quit #Assumption #Quitting

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

#Kindness #Thinking #Compassion

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Ecosystems #Earth #Persons

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Patience #Community #Answers

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Honesty #Real #Moving

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Powerful #Humility #Tools

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Being Yourself #Love You #Self Love

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Believe #Consumers

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

#Meaningful #Ambition #Accomplishment

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Meaningful #Differences #Long

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Wind #Wings #Literature

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Hate

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Real #Creating #Want

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Desire #Literature #Longing

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Moral #Form #Crisis

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Freedom #Creativity #Expression

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Materialism #Endless #Consumerism

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#People #Effort #Literature

The common person fears to think beyond the common.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Fear #Thinking #Common

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Motivational #Soul #Mind

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Eye #Winning #May

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.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Art #Dark #Men

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Genius #Enthusiasm

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

#Mistake #Thinking #People

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Roots #Looks #Behavior