Bryant McGill Quotes - Page 9

If you want more then be more. If you want better then be better.

With all respect to your religion or world-view — thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes — the keyword is "thank" — just have some gratitude and be thankful.

We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.

Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.

Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful.

While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude.

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

The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.

The subtle whispers, cues and nudges are there as guideposts, to gently carry the humble listener along the path back to the source and the true self.

Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.

Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you.

Let your existence be enough for a moment.

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

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

Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.

The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace.

You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.

Start the daily practice of joyful living.

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.

Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.

Inside of every good person there is also something very wild.

Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Let the power of yes take root in your heart and transform you life.

Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force.

Surrender is not a weakness, but rather an empowering state of humility.

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

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.

Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully.

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.

Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated and brilliant people there are who fail utterly and completely. Goodness is not enough; how many meek and good souls are tilled into the earth like manure by demigods to fertilize their golden crops. There is something more — it is the unseen essential, and everyone has access to it.

Peace IS Prosperity.

We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain.

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

In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.

Your future begins with your next thought.

Peace is the friend we find in silence.

Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?

To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.

All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.

You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.

Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.

Even when the strings are broken in our lives, the sweet music plays on in our hearts.

There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness.

So many of our problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us.

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

Your persistent problems are because of your response to common misfortune.

Trust others and you will be more trusted.

Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.

It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

You will never know anyone more intimately than yourself. Love yourself and be good to yourself.

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible