Bryant h. mcgill quotes

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

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

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

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

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

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

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

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

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

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

I learned that peace is prosperity and health is true wealth, and it is never too late to love yourself again.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

Revolution starts in the mind. Question everything!

A person who wants nothing fears nothing.

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

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

To move forward simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest just happens as a beautiful and effortless flow.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Love and respect changes everything.

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

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

Your attitudes contain your future.

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

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

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.

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

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.

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

To understand the journey you have to do the walking.

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

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

Nothing GREAT ever happens from thinking SMALL.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

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

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

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

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

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.

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.

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.

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

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

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

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

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.

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

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.

You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.

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

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

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

Changing yourself changes everything.

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

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

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgments.

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

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?

Beautiful food and health are priceless.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

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

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.

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

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

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

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

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

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.

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

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.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

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

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

As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

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

When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the world's false lessons of fear and control.

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.

We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

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.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Love only serves and does not calculate.

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.

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

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

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

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.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

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

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

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

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

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

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.

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

Acceptance is the road to all change.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

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

All things are possible through invitation and love.

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

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.