Bryant H. McGill
Bryant H. McGill
Bryant Harrison McGillis an American author, aphorist, speaker, and activist in the fields of self-development, personal freedom, and human rights. His writings and small aphorisms have been published in hundreds of books and are regularly used in newspapers, political speeches, network TV programs, university and library installations, peer-reviewed journals, academic papers and theses, and by university presidents and deans in non-violence programs and college ceremonies. McGill is a United Nations appointed Global Champion for the rights of women and girls,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 November 1969
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
Acceptance is the road to all change.
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 people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.
When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.
You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.
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.
Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.
I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.
My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.