Bryant H. McGill [1969-0] American Rank: 101 Author
Intelligence, Beauty, Education, Failure, Forgiveness, Freedom, Great, Happiness, Hope, Men, Amazing, Anger, Architecture, Art, Best, Change, Courage, Death, Equality, Experience, History, Imagination, Knowledge, Leadership, Legal, Life, Love, Relationship, Respect, Smile, Society, Strength, Success, Truth, Wisdom, Work
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The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. | Smile | 101One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. | Respect | 102Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. | Art, Beauty, Best | 103It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. | Life | 104Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. | Change, Courage | 105It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. | Experience, Work | 106No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. | | 107Self-made men often worship their creator. | Men | 108There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures. | Amazing | 109True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility. | Love | 110An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. | Intelligence | 111Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. | Architecture | 112Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. | Great, Happiness | 113Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind. | | 114Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. | | 115Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend. | | 116The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. | | 117There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. | Forgiveness, Relationship | 118True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price. | Freedom | 119While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. | Failure, Happiness, Hope | 120Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. | | 121Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success. | Men, Success | 122Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive. | | 123A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. | Great | 124Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised. | | 125Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty. | | 126Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. | | 201Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. | Education | 202It 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. | Freedom | 203Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. | Truth | 204Suffering is one of life's great teachers. | Wisdom | 205The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. | Forgiveness | 206Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love. | Beauty | 207The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. | Education | 208The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. | History, Legal | 209A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. | | 210Take without forgetting, and give without remembering. | | 211You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. | Anger | 212The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts. | | 213One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. | | 214If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you. | | 215Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. | | 216American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. | Equality, Society | 217Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. | Failure | 218Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm. | | 219Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. | Hope | 220Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. | Knowledge | 221The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. | | 222The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. | Imagination | 223Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress. | | 224The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again. | | 225Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. | Death | 226Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. | | 301Join 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. | | 302Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces. | Intelligence | 303No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man. | | 304One 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. | Strength | 305The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart. | | 306The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts. | | 307Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves. | | 308Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. | | 309You 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. | | 310Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free. | | 311Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves. | | 312All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity. | | 313Do 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? | | 314The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. | | 315Materialism is an identity crisis. | | 316A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress. | | 317Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. | | 318Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. | | 319Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. | | 320Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. | Intelligence | 321Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy. | | 322Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. | | 323Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. | Intelligence | 324In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being. | | 325It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. | Intelligence | 326Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. | | 401The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for. | | 402True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. | | 403 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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