Bryant H. McGill Quotes

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.

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

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

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

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

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

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

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

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

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.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

To understand the journey you have to do the walking.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.

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.

We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.

* The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution

Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.

A person who wants nothing fears nothing.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

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.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

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.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

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

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

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.

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

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

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

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.

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

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

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