Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I think you need to think of yourself as a flawed human being with aspirations for goodness and never start to think, 'Oh, I am a good guy. These other people are bad guys. They're dumb, I am smart.'

I don't really judge myself, I guess. I don't really judge other players.

I just want people to remember I'm not perfect. I just try to lead with love every day.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

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.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.