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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Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.
A person who wants nothing fears nothing.
Want is an empty void - your real value is full and abundant.
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?
When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.
If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.
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.