Top 318 Quotes & Sayings by Bryant H. McGill - Page 3

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

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

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

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

To understand the journey you have to do the walking.

Your attitudes contain your future.

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

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

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

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

All things are possible through invitation and love.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

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

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

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

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

A person who wants nothing fears nothing.

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

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

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.

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.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

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

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

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

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.

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.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

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

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

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

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.

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.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

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.

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

The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are.

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

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

Love and respect changes everything.