20 Bryant McGill Quotes on Life

Bryant McGill quotes on life

3. Curiosity: 'Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.'

4. Growth: 'In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love. '

8. Life: 'You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.'

9. Life: 'I am just a student of the world; a miniscule and frail embodied consciousness struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious play of life which is set on the stage of our baffling home in the universe.'

16. Life: 'Life is a wonderful journey. I believe we should make good use of the precious time and talents we have been given. We should look at the world around us, as well as the mysteries within us, as we seek for understanding and harmony with self. The gift of thought is more than I can bear, and I am elated in gracious joy for each moment I have in this beautiful and painful experience called life.'

20. Existence: 'The mysteries we ostensibly perceive, though seemingly ubiquitous, are but mere stitches that hold the inconceivably vast fabric of the unknown tightly closed from our ever prying view.'

22. Compassion: 'Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.'

27. Knowledge: 'True meaning is an apparition. Life is complex and full of illusions. Absolute understanding in this life is unattainable, and time without profound change is inescapable. Yet, we are all still compelled, like the moth to the flame, to attain that which is beyond our reach, and this we must do.'

36. Comedy: Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

48. Birth: 'I am a contemplative person by nature, and as it is such, there has seldom been a period of time that has gone by wherein I did not reflect back to the moments my children were born. What I remember most; having had a true lasting impact on me are two things. Of the two, what I consider most awe-inspiring was their first breath. I have thought intently about it over the years; about its profound implications on my understanding of the mysterious world around us, and ultimately about its paradoxical beauties. There I stood in each case as they came into the world, and I witnessed their very first, amazing and miraculous breath. With that breath came the animations of life and their helpless, compelling cries. The second thing that has continued to impact me is as this happened, in that instant of their springing into being, my wife and I helplessly collapsed into an embrace, and together wept tears of utter and absolute humility and joy.'

50. Relationships: 'The experiences of meeting and interacting with people carries with it most of the greatest opportunities to be had; the opportunity to laugh, to learn, to grow, to change, to hurt, to cry, to share, to empathize, to help, to serve, to love, to regret, to long for, to remember and to live.'

59. Life: 'Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.'

62. Death: 'Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.'

77. Purpose: 'It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.'

78. Freedom: 'It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.'

93. Suffering: 'Suffering is one of life's great teachers.'

109. Life: 'Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.'

124. Change: 'Leave room for other possibilities in your life. When we have made up our minds about something or someone, we often never revisit the circumstances that led us to our conclusions. People change and so do situations, as most situations are comprised of people's lives. When we leave no room in our lives for other possibilities we are sometimes left behind, for we stand still while the world is transformed around us.'

132. To each and every living thing The call of life will enthrall, From the mysteries, up we spring, Then to them back we fall

134. For leaves and men the same Our time is frail and brief, Cruelty has not been tamed Nor fairness worth belief