RSS: quotations "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." — Ralph Waldo Emerson https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/purpose-life-happy-lived-lived-well-ralph-waldo-emerson/ quotations-purpose-life-happy-lived-lived-well-ralph-waldo-emerson Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." — Abraham Lincoln https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/best-way-destroy-enemy-friend-abraham-lincoln/ quotations-best-way-destroy-enemy-friend-abraham-lincoln Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." — Mahatma Gandhi https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/best-way-find-yourself-service-others-mahatma-gandhi/ quotations-best-way-find-yourself-service-others-mahatma-gandhi Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint — and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. " — Oprah Winfrey https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/ive-believe-personal-energy-universe-lead-oprah-winfrey/ quotations-ive-believe-personal-energy-universe-lead-oprah-winfrey Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Life is a process of surrendering. Make the decision to let go of what no longer serves you or makes you feel good. Know that you are worth more and something better will arrive once you create the space." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-life-once-create-space-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-life-once-create-space-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work." — Diane Von Furstenberg https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/passion-persistence-matter-without-hard-work-diane-von-furstenberg/ quotations-passion-persistence-matter-without-hard-work-diane-von-furstenberg Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings." — Elizabeth Gilbert https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/participate-relentlessly-manifestation-own-blessings-elizabeth-gilbert/ quotations-participate-relentlessly-manifestation-own-blessings-elizabeth-gilbert Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." — Albert Einstein https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/human-being-part-whole-nature-beauty-albert-einstein/ quotations-human-being-part-whole-nature-beauty-albert-einstein Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The most exquisite paradox...as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible." — Ram Dass https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/most-exquisite-paradox-youll-dreamed-possible-ram-dass/ quotations-most-exquisite-paradox-youll-dreamed-possible-ram-dass Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The desire to let go is actually the desire to hold on masquerading as the desire to let go." — David Newman https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/desire-let-actually-masquerading-desire-let-david-newman/ quotations-desire-let-actually-masquerading-desire-let-david-newman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The scientific method only acknowledges monophasic consciousness. The method is a specialized system that focuses on studying small and distinctive parts in isolation, which results in fragmented knowledge." — Tara W. Lumpkin https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/scientific-method-acknowledges-results-fragmented-knowledge-tara-w-lumpkin/ quotations-scientific-method-acknowledges-results-fragmented-knowledge-tara-w-lumpkin Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The linear deterministic approach to nature and technology promoted a fragmented perception of reality, and a loss of the ability to foresee, to adequately evaluate, in all their complexity, global crises in ecology, civilization and education." — Anatoly P. Liferov https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/linear-deterministic-approach-ecology-civilization-education-anatoly-p-liferov/ quotations-linear-deterministic-approach-ecology-civilization-education-anatoly-p-liferov Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Part of happiness is knowing your sadness." — Sierra McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/part-happiness-knowing-sadness-sierra-mcgill/ quotations-part-happiness-knowing-sadness-sierra-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The simple act of listening is the beginning of change in our lives." — Susaye Greene https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/simple-act-listening-beginning-change-lives-susaye-greene/ quotations-simple-act-listening-beginning-change-lives-susaye-greene Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." — Maya Angelou https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/encounter-defeats-must-who-rise-still-maya-angelou/ quotations-encounter-defeats-must-who-rise-still-maya-angelou Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Follow your intuition, step into the unknown and leap into the field of all possibilities." — Jayme Barrett https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/follow-intuition-step-leap-field-possibilities-jayme-barrett/ quotations-follow-intuition-step-leap-field-possibilities-jayme-barrett Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way." — Neale Donald Walsch https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/nothing-happen-immediately-except-own-way-neale-donald-walsch/ quotations-nothing-happen-immediately-except-own-way-neale-donald-walsch Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, 'Prove that you are a good person.' Another voice says, 'You'd better be ashamed of yourself.' There also is a voice that says, 'Nobody really cares about you,' and one that says, 'Be sure to become successful, popular, and powerful.' But underneath all these often very noisy voices is a still, small voice that says, 'You are my Beloved, my favor rests on you.' That's the voice we need most of all to hear. To hear that voice, however, requires special effort; it requires solitude, silence, and a strong determination to listen." — Henri J.M. Nouwen https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/voices-ask-attention-strong-determination-listen-henri-jm-nouwen/ quotations-voices-ask-attention-strong-determination-listen-henri-jm-nouwen Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." — Jorge Luis Borges https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/dont-talk-unless-improve-silence-jorge-luis-borges/ quotations-dont-talk-unless-improve-silence-jorge-luis-borges Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The only real valuable thing is intuition." — Albert Einstein https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/real-valuable-thing-intuition-albert-einstein/ quotations-real-valuable-thing-intuition-albert-einstein Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "He who looks outside dreams. He who looks within, awakens." — Carl Jung https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/who-looks-outside-looks-within-awakens-carl-jung/ quotations-who-looks-outside-looks-within-awakens-carl-jung Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything. And to understand is to transform what is." — Jiddu Krishnamurti https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/yourself-teacher-pupil-everything-understand-transform-jiddu-krishnamurti/ quotations-yourself-teacher-pupil-everything-understand-transform-jiddu-krishnamurti Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful, but action is what it takes to make it happen." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-stop-action-takes-happen-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-stop-action-takes-happen-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Internal and external purification are the first, crucial steps towards achieving maximum health and vitality. By cleansing your body on a regular basis and eliminating as many toxins as possible from your environment, your body can begin to heal itself, prevent disease, and become stronger and more resilient than you ever dreamed possible." — Dr. Edward Group, III. https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/internal-external-purification-resilient-dreamed-possible-dr-edward-group-iii/ quotations-internal-external-purification-resilient-dreamed-possible-dr-edward-group-iii Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Always hold fast to the present. Every situation,indeed every moment,is of infinite value,for it is the representative of a whole eternity." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/always-hold-fast-representative-whole-eternity-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/ quotations-always-hold-fast-representative-whole-eternity-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word, and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!" — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-every-choose-wisely-positively-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-every-choose-wisely-positively-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." — Peace Pilgrim https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/realized-powerful-thoughts-think-negative-thought-peace-pilgrim/ quotations-realized-powerful-thoughts-think-negative-thought-peace-pilgrim Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— If you take the time to look for beauty, you will find it. Open yourself to the beauty you have been missing right before you." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-take-missing-right-before-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-take-missing-right-before-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games." — William S. Burroughs https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/war-universe-war-based-war-games-william-s-burroughs/ quotations-war-universe-war-based-war-games-william-s-burroughs Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty." — Paramahansa Yogananda https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/permit-thoughts-dwell-absorb-quality-beauty-paramahansa-yogananda/ quotations-permit-thoughts-dwell-absorb-quality-beauty-paramahansa-yogananda Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-moment-follow-hearts-calling-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-moment-follow-hearts-calling-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." — Bob Dylan https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/man-success-gets-night-between-wants-bob-dylan/ quotations-man-success-gets-night-between-wants-bob-dylan Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— When we truly love ourselves, it is reflected in everything we do and it creates positive ripples in the lives of others. Self-love is one of the greatest contributions you can make to the world." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-truly-greatest-contributions-world-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-truly-greatest-contributions-world-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Trust that all is going to be okay. The fact that you are here right now is proof that everything has always had a way of working out for you." — Emmanuel Dagher https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/trust-going-okay-always-way-working-emmanuel-dagher/ quotations-trust-going-okay-always-way-working-emmanuel-dagher Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." — Lao Tzu https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/content-rejoice-way-whole-world-belongs-lao-tzu/ quotations-content-rejoice-way-whole-world-belongs-lao-tzu Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe. Most people do not know this, yet it is true. Expressing thankfulness in advance is the way of all Masters. So do not wait for a thing to happen and then give thanks. Give thanks before it happens, and watch energies swirl!" — Neale Donald Walsch https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/gratitude-advance-most-watch-energies-swirl-neale-donald-walsch/ quotations-gratitude-advance-most-watch-energies-swirl-neale-donald-walsch Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-empty-room-todays-joy-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-empty-room-todays-joy-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Everybody gets a pound of pain. Yours may be feathers, and mine might be rocks; but a pound is a pound." — Bernadette Randle https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/everybody-gets-pound-rocks-pound-pound-bernadette-randle/ quotations-everybody-gets-pound-rocks-pound-pound-bernadette-randle Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Everyone gets discouraged and feels lost at times. Don't worry — life will get better. A new way is being made for you. Keep moving forward even if it's just baby steps." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-everyone-just-baby-steps-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-everyone-just-baby-steps-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything." — Ernest Hemingway https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/worry-little-bit-never-fixes-anything-ernest-hemingway/ quotations-worry-little-bit-never-fixes-anything-ernest-hemingway Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose." — Dr.Wayne Dyer https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/everything-happened-either-keep-growing-choose-drwayne-dyer/ quotations-everything-happened-either-keep-growing-choose-drwayne-dyer Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Pause and remember— Every situation in life is temporary. So, when life is good, make sure you enjoy and receive it fully. And when life is not so good, remember that it will not last forever and better days are on the way. — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-every-better-days-way-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-every-better-days-way-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." — Albert Camus https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/never-happy-continue-looking-meaning-life-albert-camus/ quotations-never-happy-continue-looking-meaning-life-albert-camus Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community." — Dorothy Day https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/known-long-loneliness-love-comes-community-dorothy-day/ quotations-known-long-loneliness-love-comes-community-dorothy-day Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." — Henry Miller https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/life-moves-whether-who-vision-recognize-henry-miller/ quotations-life-moves-whether-who-vision-recognize-henry-miller Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." — William James https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/greatest-discovery-generation-life-altering-attitudes-william-james/ quotations-greatest-discovery-generation-life-altering-attitudes-william-james Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "A soul who can be amazed is most likely a soul who amazes others. It is because you are astounded that you are astounding. It's called gratitude." — Susan Young https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/soul-who-amazed-astounding-called-gratitude-susan-young/ quotations-soul-who-amazed-astounding-called-gratitude-susan-young Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders." — Andrew Harvey https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/youre-really-listening-hold-evermore-wonders-andrew-harvey/ quotations-youre-really-listening-hold-evermore-wonders-andrew-harvey Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough." — Meister Eckhart https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/prayer-thank-enough-meister-eckhart/ quotations-prayer-thank-enough-meister-eckhart Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "See the World through the eyes of a child." — Lisa Williams https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/see-world-eyes-child-lisa-williams/ quotations-see-world-eyes-child-lisa-williams Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy." — Astrid Lindgren https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/childhood-without-books-rarest-kind-joy-astrid-lindgren/ quotations-childhood-without-books-rarest-kind-joy-astrid-lindgren Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." — Margaret Mead https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/children-must-taught-think-think-margaret-mead/ quotations-children-must-taught-think-think-margaret-mead Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday." — Khalil Gibran https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/children-children-sons-nor-tarries-yesterday-khalil-gibran/ quotations-children-children-sons-nor-tarries-yesterday-khalil-gibran Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Complete and unqualified respect is and must be the foundation stone of any mutually satisfying relationship, and must be the basis from which we enter into relationships with our children. Without it, we all inevitably end up in humiliation and disgrace. ... I think adultism — treating young people with less than complete respect — is grounded in a fundamental distortion in how we see and experience the nature of the world and especially the nature of human beings ... we carry a heavy load of shame about our nature and a horrible wound from being torn apart from our naturally complete interconnectedness with all of life. The sum total of our experience has resulted in an awful misunderstanding about the nature of being human. Incredibly, we are pulled to view our children as inherently lazy, irresponsible, stupid and manipulative in the worst sense of these words. So we justify disrespectful attempts to control or punish them as necessary to shape them properly or correct their brutish, natural tendencies; all this is done 'for their own good,' of course." — John Breeding, Ph.D. https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/complete-unqualified-respect-own-good-course-john-breeding-phd/ quotations-complete-unqualified-respect-own-good-course-john-breeding-phd Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money (not for purpose or passion) — has turned himself into a slave." — Joseph Campbell https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/think-person-who-turned-himself-slave-joseph-campbell/ quotations-think-person-who-turned-himself-slave-joseph-campbell Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." — Ferdinand Foch https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/most-powerful-weapon-human-soul-fire-ferdinand-foch/ quotations-most-powerful-weapon-human-soul-fire-ferdinand-foch Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Every morning is a new page in the story of your life. You are creating your life at every moment. Think wisely about the day you want to create for yourself." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-every-want-create-yourself-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-every-want-create-yourself-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." — E.E. Cummings https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/takes-courage-grow-become-who-really-ee-cummings/ quotations-takes-courage-grow-become-who-really-ee-cummings Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Cultivate a vibrant surrounding and commit yourself to making choices that will help you release the greatest expression of your unique beauty and purpose." — Dr. Steve Maraboli https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/cultivate-vibrant-surrounding-unique-beauty-purpose-dr-steve-maraboli/ quotations-cultivate-vibrant-surrounding-unique-beauty-purpose-dr-steve-maraboli Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-no-good-decisions-rescue-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-no-good-decisions-rescue-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Love is available to you the moment you are available to love." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-love-moment-available-love-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-love-moment-available-love-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness." — Neale Donald Walsch https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/purpose-relationship-another-might-share-completeness-neale-donald-walsch/ quotations-purpose-relationship-another-might-share-completeness-neale-donald-walsch Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self." — Brendan Francis https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/innermost-core-loneliness-ones-lost-self-brendan-francis/ quotations-innermost-core-loneliness-ones-lost-self-brendan-francis Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— You are unique. You are special. Every mistake, trial and hardship has helped to sculpt your real beauty. Stop hating yourself and start appreciating and loving yourself!" — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-unique-appreciating-loving-yourself-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-unique-appreciating-loving-yourself-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Comparison is an act of violence against the self." — Iyanla Vanzant https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/comparison-act-violence-against-self-iyanla-vanzant/ quotations-comparison-act-violence-against-self-iyanla-vanzant Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world." — Ramana Maharshi https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/own-self-realization-service-render-world-ramana-maharshi/ quotations-own-self-realization-service-render-world-ramana-maharshi Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." — Oscar Wilde https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/most-people-people-mimicry-passions-quotation-oscar-wilde/ quotations-most-people-people-mimicry-passions-quotation-oscar-wilde Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." — Franz Kafka https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/dont-bend-dont-intense-obsessions-mercilessly-franz-kafka/ quotations-dont-bend-dont-intense-obsessions-mercilessly-franz-kafka Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." — Kurt Vonnegut https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pretend-must-careful-pretend-kurt-vonnegut/ quotations-pretend-must-careful-pretend-kurt-vonnegut Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "It is not your job to make anyone else happy. You cannot please your parents. You can never please your children! Do what you do, to the best of your ability, with a loving intent, for the good of all involved." — Iyanla Vanzant https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/job-anyone-else-intent-good-involved-iyanla-vanzant/ quotations-job-anyone-else-intent-good-involved-iyanla-vanzant Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing." — Brian L. Weiss https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/forgive-past-over-always-alive-changing-brian-l-weiss/ quotations-forgive-past-over-always-alive-changing-brian-l-weiss Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "In every or any situation, regardless of the mitigating factors, you can always change your mind. If what you are thinking, saying or doing in response to any person or experience is not bringing you peace, change your mind! Changing your mind about anything or anyone transforms how those things or persons impact your life." — Iyanla Vanzant https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/every-situation-regardless-persons-impact-life-iyanla-vanzant/ quotations-every-situation-regardless-persons-impact-life-iyanla-vanzant Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "To live abundantly, you must be courageous. You must be able to go outside of the box, lines, dimension, energy, set point, field, 'comfort zone' or whatever adjective humanity chooses to describe its current confines. Be like a child. Be an explorer who is ever-excited, ever-reaching, ever-searching, not because of lack but because of the courageous heart. Get out of old patterns, systems and ideas that have controlled your reality." — Darius M. Barazandeh https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/live-abundantly-must-ideas-controlled-reality-darius-m-barazandeh/ quotations-live-abundantly-must-ideas-controlled-reality-darius-m-barazandeh Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "When you are judged, bullied or rejected, you have to be strong in your heart." — Sierra McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/judged-bullied-rejected-strong-heart-sierra-mcgill/ quotations-judged-bullied-rejected-strong-heart-sierra-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back." — Joel Osteen https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/people-label-good-let-hold-back-joel-osteen/ quotations-people-label-good-let-hold-back-joel-osteen Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "One way to help prevent the past from determining your future is to stop believing that it will." — Dr. Charles Glassman https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/way-help-prevent-future-stop-believing-dr-charles-glassman/ quotations-way-help-prevent-future-stop-believing-dr-charles-glassman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them." — Buckminster Fuller https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/everyone-born-genius-living-de-geniuses-buckminster-fuller/ quotations-everyone-born-genius-living-de-geniuses-buckminster-fuller Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Everybody is a genius." — Albert Einstein https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/everybody-genius-albert-einstein/ quotations-everybody-genius-albert-einstein Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." — Martha Washington https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/determined-cheerful-happy-determined-circumstance-disposition-martha-washington/ quotations-determined-cheerful-happy-determined-circumstance-disposition-martha-washington Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-change-moment-courage-change-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-change-moment-courage-change-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us." — Marianne Williamson https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/love-born-fear-lie-meaning-lies-marianne-williamson/ quotations-love-born-fear-lie-meaning-lies-marianne-williamson Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— You will have a lot more time and energy to spend on yourself when you stop worrying and wasting time on how others need to change." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-lot-others-need-change-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-lot-others-need-change-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health — food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is 'LOVE OF ONESELF.'" — Charlie Chaplin https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/began-love-myself-know-love-oneself-charlie-chaplin/ quotations-began-love-myself-know-love-oneself-charlie-chaplin Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." — Swami Vivekananda https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/thoughts-made-take-live-travel-far-swami-vivekananda/ quotations-thoughts-made-take-live-travel-far-swami-vivekananda Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— The peace you seek begins with you! When you consciously and consistently choose peace in your words and actions, more peace will appear in your life. Stop blaming everything and everyone outside of you. Make peace within your priority." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-peace-peace-within-priority-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-peace-peace-within-priority-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "You have two choices, you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important." — Sidney Sheldon https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/choices-keep-running-decide-somebody-important-sidney-sheldon/ quotations-choices-keep-running-decide-somebody-important-sidney-sheldon Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!" — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-every-wiser-yesterday-thankful-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-every-wiser-yesterday-thankful-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Do not run from criticism. Criticism can be one of your greatest guides and teachers if you can just learn to not run from it." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-run-just-learn-run-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-run-just-learn-run-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "If the whole world rejected you and you didn't believe any of your thoughts about it, you'd be completely at peace." — Byron Katie https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/whole-world-rejected-youd-completely-peace-byron-katie/ quotations-whole-world-rejected-youd-completely-peace-byron-katie Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner." — Lao Tzu https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/care-people-think-always-prisoner-lao-tzu/ quotations-care-people-think-always-prisoner-lao-tzu Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind." — Albert Camus https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/need-right-sign-vulgar-mind-albert-camus/ quotations-need-right-sign-vulgar-mind-albert-camus Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Before you react in your typical way; stop yourself. Instead, become calm, centered, clear and thoughtful." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-before-centered-clear-thoughtful-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-before-centered-clear-thoughtful-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— When you can truly realize and accept that all of life is cheering for you, and that every single event, person and lesson brought into your life has great purpose, then you have the real potential for living an evolved life full of grace, gratitude and magical splendor." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-truly-gratitude-magical-splendor-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-truly-gratitude-magical-splendor-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Your word is your wand. The words you speak create your own destiny." — Florence Scovel Shinn https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/word-wand-words-create-own-destiny-florence-scovel-shinn/ quotations-word-wand-words-create-own-destiny-florence-scovel-shinn Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Let go of anything you don't love about your life story and just keep the things you love. If you hold on to negative things from your past, then you keep putting them into your story every time you remember them, and they go back into the pictures of your life — now!" — Rhonda Byrne https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/let-anything-dont-pictures-life-now-rhonda-byrne/ quotations-let-anything-dont-pictures-life-now-rhonda-byrne Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Slow and steady will get you where you want to go. If you put too much pressure on yourself for results too quickly, you will quickly give up." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-slow-quickly-quickly-give-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-slow-quickly-quickly-give-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." — Winston Churchill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/success-consists-going-without-loss-enthusiasm-winston-churchill/ quotations-success-consists-going-without-loss-enthusiasm-winston-churchill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Sometimes, what seems like a very negative or challenging event is what puts us in alignment with our greater purpose." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-sometimes-alignment-greater-purpose-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-sometimes-alignment-greater-purpose-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others." — Epictetus https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/peoples-views-troubles-attitudes-associations-others-epictetus/ quotations-peoples-views-troubles-attitudes-associations-others-epictetus Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Avoid negative people for they are the greatest destroyers of self confidence and self esteem." — Zig Ziglar https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/avoid-negative-people-confidence-self-esteem-zig-ziglar/ quotations-avoid-negative-people-confidence-self-esteem-zig-ziglar Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— When you stop holding on so tightly to the way you once thought, you create space in your mind and life for new opportunities to arrive." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-stop-new-opportunities-arrive-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-stop-new-opportunities-arrive-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— You deserve peace! So, don't feel bad for one moment about walking away from people, jobs, and situations that keep you from having peace of mind." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-deserve-having-peace-mind-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-deserve-having-peace-mind-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny." — Dr. Steve Maraboli https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/letting-means-realization-history-part-destiny-dr-steve-maraboli/ quotations-letting-means-realization-history-part-destiny-dr-steve-maraboli Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "End it now! Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. ... Don't waste valuable time trying to change them. Change yourself and get them out of your life! Don't say a word; leave all of your belongings if you have to in the middle of the night. Cut off all communication. Don't take their calls. You have heard all the lies before. They will not change. They don't choose to change. It is who they have decided to be. Move to another city, if you must, and start all over again. Your life is worth it. You deserve to have peace of mind, a great relationship and an exciting life." — Les Brown https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/end-now-dont-relationship-exciting-life-les-brown/ quotations-end-now-dont-relationship-exciting-life-les-brown Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The company you keep not only defines you but binds you, strive always to seek the company of the truth." — Panache Desai https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/company-keep-defines-seek-company-truth-panache-desai/ quotations-company-keep-defines-seek-company-truth-panache-desai Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos." — Guy Kawasaki https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/inoculate-yourself-dangerous-bozos-guy-kawasaki/ quotations-inoculate-yourself-dangerous-bozos-guy-kawasaki Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people." — Joel Osteen https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/cannot-expect-live-hang-negative-people-joel-osteen/ quotations-cannot-expect-live-hang-negative-people-joel-osteen Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead." — Anais Nin https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/backstabbing-co-worker-choose-happiness-instead-anais-nin/ quotations-backstabbing-co-worker-choose-happiness-instead-anais-nin Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control." — Iyanla Vanzant https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/takes-lot-courage-resistance-struggle-control-iyanla-vanzant/ quotations-takes-lot-courage-resistance-struggle-control-iyanla-vanzant Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart." — Jim Henson https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/watch-love-everyone-most-especially-heart-jim-henson/ quotations-watch-love-everyone-most-especially-heart-jim-henson Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.'" — Oprah Winfrey https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/true-forgiveness-say-thank-experience-oprah-winfrey/ quotations-true-forgiveness-say-thank-experience-oprah-winfrey Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "When you release someone from a transgression, you're actually releasing yourself. Accept the apology you'll never receive." — Shawne Duperon https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/release-someone-transgression-youll-never-receive-shawne-duperon/ quotations-release-someone-transgression-youll-never-receive-shawne-duperon Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire." — Gordon B. Hinckley https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/willingness-forgive-sign-virtues-should-aspire-gordon-b-hinckley/ quotations-willingness-forgive-sign-virtues-should-aspire-gordon-b-hinckley Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard enough without the added fear, panic and anxiety. Your soul is crying out for love and encouragement. Take a moment to breathe deep, get present and find some compassion for yourself. Then, go out and treat yourself right; pamper yourself and take care of your needs. You are worth it!" — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-stop-care-needs-worth-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-stop-care-needs-worth-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now." — don Miguel Ruiz https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/whatever-life-takes-happening-right-now-don-miguel-ruiz/ quotations-whatever-life-takes-happening-right-now-don-miguel-ruiz Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future." — Louise Hay https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/dont-flow-freely-moment-create-future-louise-hay/ quotations-dont-flow-freely-moment-create-future-louise-hay Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "There is a place in everyone that yearns to love, that longs to be safe, that wants to treat others and ourselves with respect. Sometimes that place is buried underneath layers of fear, old wounds, cynicism, and pain that we have used to protect ourselves from injury." — Jack Kornfield https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/place-everyone-yearns-protect-ourselves-injury-jack-kornfield/ quotations-place-everyone-yearns-protect-ourselves-injury-jack-kornfield Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Life lessons were never meant to be a life sentence. Release yourself from prison. People who are successful in life, quickly accept their wrong doings; they go to therapy, do self-therapy, self-correct, or somehow actively learn the lesson so they can move forward. They do not wallow in guilt, pain and shame for years. Use your past as building blocks for a solid foundation in life, not to wall yourself into a life of misery." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-life-yourself-life-misery-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-life-yourself-life-misery-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to move forward." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-fight-free-move-forward-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-fight-free-move-forward-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." — Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968 https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/crack-everything-thats-light-gets-leonard-cohen-selected-poems/ quotations-crack-everything-thats-light-gets-leonard-cohen-selected-poems Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The wound is the place where the light enters you." — Rumi https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/wound-place-light-enters-rumi/ quotations-wound-place-light-enters-rumi Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— When you can allow yourself to let go of your firm understandings and truths, you are opening yourself to a vastly larger field of possibilities. Options that once seemed small and impossible from your previous viewpoint, are miraculously transformed into a new landscape of choices by opening your mind." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-allow-choices-opening-mind-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-allow-choices-opening-mind-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." — Joseph Campbell https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/follow-bliss-doors-door-anyone-else-joseph-campbell/ quotations-follow-bliss-doors-door-anyone-else-joseph-campbell Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?" — Rumi https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/irritated-every-rub-mirror-polished-rumi/ quotations-irritated-every-rub-mirror-polished-rumi Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." — Aesop https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/no-act-kindness-matter-small-wasted-aesop/ quotations-no-act-kindness-matter-small-wasted-aesop Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Nothing lasts forever. Better days are coming, but they will come faster with faith." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-nothing-coming-faster-faith-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-nothing-coming-faster-faith-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— If you just keep moving forward, everything you need will show up for you at the perfect time." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-just-show-perfect-time-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-just-show-perfect-time-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— If you are reading this you are blessed to be alive and today is a gift. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. Don't hesitate to forgive, hug and love those dear to you!" — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-reading-love-those-dear-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-reading-love-those-dear-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy." — Nora Roberts https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/life-control-party-tragedy-nora-roberts/ quotations-life-control-party-tragedy-nora-roberts Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— One of the quickest ways to move forward in life is to surround yourself with mentors and positive people who understand your journey and who live the type of successful life that appeals to you. If you do not have positive role models now, seek them out, and don't be bashful to step outside of your comfort zone to find them. Most successful people are honored by the opportunity to share their wisdom with an eager student wishing to get ahead in life." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-quickest-wishing-ahead-life-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-quickest-wishing-ahead-life-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." — Benjamin Franklin https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/people-die-arent-buried-until-benjamin-franklin/ quotations-people-die-arent-buried-until-benjamin-franklin Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears." — C.G. Jung https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/frequently-seen-people-neurosis-generally-disappears-cg-jung/ quotations-frequently-seen-people-neurosis-generally-disappears-cg-jung Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— You will make it to the other side of this hardship. One day you will look back with wiser eyes, understanding and gratitude. Hang in there!" — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-side-understanding-gratitude-hang-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-side-understanding-gratitude-hang-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." — Rabindranath Tagore https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/clouds-floating-life-color-sunset-sky-rabindranath-tagore/ quotations-clouds-floating-life-color-sunset-sky-rabindranath-tagore Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Some of the most devastating events in our life can put us in direct alignment with our destiny, but we first have to move past the lessons to see our path." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-most-lessons-see-path-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-most-lessons-see-path-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways — either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. — Dalai Lama XIV https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/meet-real-tragedy-find-inner-strength-dalai-lama-xiv/ quotations-meet-real-tragedy-find-inner-strength-dalai-lama-xiv Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Continuing to place blame and judgment on past and present circumstances is not going to change your life. You must accept the cards that you have been dealt and devise a strategic plan to make real and lasting change in your life. No matter where you presently are in life, you can achieve your dreams if you are willing to alter your thoughts, words, and actions." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-continuing-thoughts-words-actions-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-continuing-thoughts-words-actions-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-alone-connection-yourself-others-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-alone-connection-yourself-others-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates." — Nisargadatta Maharaj https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/always-false-makes-happy-truth-liberates-nisargadatta-maharaj/ quotations-always-false-makes-happy-truth-liberates-nisargadatta-maharaj Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise. When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything." — Rhonda Byrne https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/big-change-occurs-life-change-anything-rhonda-byrne/ quotations-big-change-occurs-life-change-anything-rhonda-byrne Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— The past is over and it cannot be changed, fixed or undone by continuing to think about it. The quicker we can get over our mistakes, understand the lessons and move forward, the healthier we become to ourselves and everyone around us!" — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-past-ourselves-everyone-around-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-past-ourselves-everyone-around-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." — Lucille Ball https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/learned-hard-way-restore-faith-yourself-lucille-ball/ quotations-learned-hard-way-restore-faith-yourself-lucille-ball Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." — Maya Angelou https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/courage-most-important-practice-virtue-consistently-maya-angelou/ quotations-courage-most-important-practice-virtue-consistently-maya-angelou Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— The spiritual path is not always going to be smooth and easy. There are going to be difficult situations, hardships, losses and lessons. Don't lose faith along the way. You are exactly where you need to be." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-spiritual-way-exactly-need-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-spiritual-way-exactly-need-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." — Chuck Palahniuk https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/hard-forget-pain-learn-little-peace-chuck-palahniuk/ quotations-hard-forget-pain-learn-little-peace-chuck-palahniuk Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." — Aung San Suu Kyi https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/real-prison-fear-freedom-freedom-fear-aung-san-suu-kyi/ quotations-real-prison-fear-freedom-freedom-fear-aung-san-suu-kyi Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." — Haruki Murakami https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pain-inevitable-suffering-optional-haruki-murakami/ quotations-pain-inevitable-suffering-optional-haruki-murakami Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." — Thich Nhat Hanh https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/feelings-clouds-windy-conscious-breathing-anchor-thich-nhat-hanh/ quotations-feelings-clouds-windy-conscious-breathing-anchor-thich-nhat-hanh Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing." — Lisa Tenzin-Dolma https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/recognising-accepting-inner-find-true-healing-lisa-tenzindolma/ quotations-recognising-accepting-inner-find-true-healing-lisa-tenzindolma Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "Pause and remember— Every person is going through difficult hardships and growth. Let's be more conscious of this by being more patient, compassionate and understanding." — Jenni Young McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/pause-remember-every-patient-compassionate-understanding-jenni-young-mcgill/ quotations-pause-remember-every-patient-compassionate-understanding-jenni-young-mcgill Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself." — Deepak Chopra https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/best-way-rid-wanting-awaken-itself-deepak-chopra/ quotations-best-way-rid-wanting-awaken-itself-deepak-chopra Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." — Henry David Thoreau https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/advances-confidently-direction-put-foundations-under-henry-david-thoreau/ quotations-advances-confidently-direction-put-foundations-under-henry-david-thoreau Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. — Gandhi https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/civil-disobedience-becomes-shares-corruption-lawlessness-gandhi/ quotations-civil-disobedience-becomes-shares-corruption-lawlessness-gandhi Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. — Howard Zinn https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/hopeful-bad-times-itself-marvelous-victory-howard-zinn/ quotations-hopeful-bad-times-itself-marvelous-victory-howard-zinn Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 For last year's words belong to last year's language / And next year's words await another voice. — T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding, II.4 https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/last-years-words-await-another-voice-ts-eliot-little-gidding-ii/ quotations-last-years-words-await-another-voice-ts-eliot-little-gidding-ii Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859 https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/peculiar-evil-silencing-produced-collision-error-john-stuart-mill-on-liberty/ quotations-peculiar-evil-silencing-produced-collision-error-john-stuart-mill-on-liberty Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. — Ralph Waldo Emerson https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/good-news-moment-comes-within-without-ralph-waldo-emerson/ quotations-good-news-moment-comes-within-without-ralph-waldo-emerson Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation. — George Carlin https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/governments-dont-want-passively-accept-situation-george-carlin/ quotations-governments-dont-want-passively-accept-situation-george-carlin Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. — Frank Zappa https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/drop-school-before-youve-got-guts-frank-zappa/ quotations-drop-school-before-youve-got-guts-frank-zappa Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. — Albert Einstein https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/education-remains-after-everything-learned-school-albert-einstein/ quotations-education-remains-after-everything-learned-school-albert-einstein Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. — Sigrid Undset https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/hated-school-intensely-interfered-freedom-sigrid-undset/ quotations-hated-school-intensely-interfered-freedom-sigrid-undset Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. — Sir Walter Scott https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/men-who-turned-hand-own-education-sir-walter-scott/ quotations-men-who-turned-hand-own-education-sir-walter-scott Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/education-admirable-thing-worth-knowing-taught-oscar-wilde/ quotations-education-admirable-thing-worth-knowing-taught-oscar-wilde Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. — Leo Tolstoy https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/real-wisdom-knowledge-completely-unnecessary-know-leo-tolstoy/ quotations-real-wisdom-knowledge-completely-unnecessary-know-leo-tolstoy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Emancipate yourself from mental slavery none but ourselves can free our minds. — Bob Marley https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/emancipate-yourself-mental-ourselves-free-minds-bob-marley/ quotations-emancipate-yourself-mental-ourselves-free-minds-bob-marley Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all. — Paul Simon https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/think-back-crap-school-wonder-think-paul-simon/ quotations-think-back-crap-school-wonder-think-paul-simon Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course. — John Taylor Gatto https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/school-first-impression-relief-products-course-john-taylor-gatto/ quotations-school-first-impression-relief-products-course-john-taylor-gatto Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul... — Walt Whitman https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/re-examine-told-insults-own-soul-walt-whitman/ quotations-re-examine-told-insults-own-soul-walt-whitman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. — Gandhi https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/no-school-equal-equal-virtuous-parent-gandhi/ quotations-no-school-equal-equal-virtuous-parent-gandhi Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school. — Margaret Mead https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/grandmother-wanted-education-kept-school-margaret-mead/ quotations-grandmother-wanted-education-kept-school-margaret-mead Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. — Beatrix Potter https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/thank-goodness-never-rubbed-off-originality-beatrix-potter/ quotations-thank-goodness-never-rubbed-off-originality-beatrix-potter Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again. — Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc. https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/grow-tend-told-youll-never-same-steve-jobs-apple-inc/ quotations-grow-tend-told-youll-never-same-steve-jobs-apple-inc Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. — Apple Commercial https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/heres-crazy-ones-world-ones-who-apple-commercial/ quotations-heres-crazy-ones-world-ones-who-apple-commercial Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr. https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/became-convinced-noncooperation-legacy-creative-protest-martin-luther-king-jr/ quotations-became-convinced-noncooperation-legacy-creative-protest-martin-luther-king-jr Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly. — Albert Camus https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/revolt-revolution-both-crossroads-police-folly-albert-camus/ quotations-revolt-revolution-both-crossroads-police-folly-albert-camus Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 We are miseducating the young to believe that military heroism is the noblest form of heroism, when it should be remembered only as the tragic accompaniment of horrendous policies driven by power and profit. The current infatuation with World War II prepares us— innocently on the part of some, deliberately on the part of others— for more war, more military adventures, more attempts to emulate the military heroes of the past. — Howard Zinn https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/miseducating-young-believe-military-heroes-past-howard-zinn/ quotations-miseducating-young-believe-military-heroes-past-howard-zinn Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 It is will that endows the animal with weapons of defense and with the means of obtaining its food; it is will too that endows the animal with consciousness and man with intellect, for these are weapons like any other contrivance for escaping from the enemy or securing prey. Indeed, intellect is the most perfect of all the weapons with which will has endowed creatures, for as the ink sac of the cuttlefish serves to conceal the animal's flight or approach, so intellect serves to hide the intent of the will and thus to insure its success. — William Turner on Schopenhauer https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/endows-animal-weapons-thus-insure-success-william-turner-on-schopenhauer/ quotations-endows-animal-weapons-thus-insure-success-william-turner-on-schopenhauer Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 In the problem of women was the germ of a solution, not only for their oppression, but for everybody's. The control of women in society was ingeniously effective. It was not done directly by the state. Instead the family was used — men to control women, women to control children, all to be preoccupied with one another, to turn to one another for help, to blame one another for trouble, to do violence to one another when things weren't going right. Why could this not be turned around? Could women liberating themselves, children freeing themselves, men and women beginning to understand one another, find the source of their common oppression outside rather than in one another? Perhaps then they could create nuggets of strength in their own relationships, millions of pockets of insurrection. They could revolutionize thought and behavior in exactly that seclusion of family privacy which the system had counted on to do its work of control and indoctrination. And together, instead of at odds — male, female, parents, children — they could undertake the changing of society itself. — Howard Zinn https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/problem-women-germ-changing-society-itself-howard-zinn/ quotations-problem-women-germ-changing-society-itself-howard-zinn Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ... In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. — Edward Bernays, Propaganda https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/conscious-intelligent-manipulation-control-public-mind-edward-bernays-propaganda/ quotations-conscious-intelligent-manipulation-control-public-mind-edward-bernays-propaganda Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. — Friedrich Nietzsche https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/individuals-insanity-rare-nations-epochs-rule-friedrich-nietzsche/ quotations-individuals-insanity-rare-nations-epochs-rule-friedrich-nietzsche Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath laws are girded too tight. Without liberty, man is a syncope. — Henry Ward Beecher https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/liberty-souls-right-liberty-man-syncope-henry-ward-beecher/ quotations-liberty-souls-right-liberty-man-syncope-henry-ward-beecher Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. — George Orwell https://bryantmcgill.com/quotations/times-universal-deceit-becomes-revolutionary-act-george-orwell/ quotations-times-universal-deceit-becomes-revolutionary-act-george-orwell Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500