Quotes by Activists - Page 56

Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.
Bryant McGill
Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully.
Bryant McGill
There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.
Bryant McGill
The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.
Bryant McGill
Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself.
Bryant McGill
If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.
Bryant McGill
Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.
Bryant McGill
If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.
Bryant McGill
We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past.
Bryant McGill
When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.
Bryant McGill
Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.
Bryant McGill
People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.
Bryant McGill
One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.
Bryant McGill
Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.
Bryant McGill
There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source.
Bryant McGill
Your unresolved issues will continue to call-in experiences to teach you what you need to learn.
Bryant McGill
Learn to understand your energy and how you create with your energy.
Bryant McGill
Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water.
Bryant McGill
Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.
Bryant McGill
When teaching someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary, and more from the way the boundary is established.
Bryant McGill
You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you.
Bryant McGill
Speak kindly to and of yourself.
Bryant McGill
Learn to experience yourself without judging yourself.
Bryant McGill
You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.
Bryant McGill
Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.
Bryant McGill
For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants — there will only continue to be the hard and painful lessons you so desperately need. The invisible hand will hold you in your wretched place until your last breath — unless you evolve. If you are cruel and ignorant the invisible fist will pound you into oblivion until you submit, humble yourself and soften your hard heart.
Bryant McGill
A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.
Eli Pariser
The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.
Maya Angelou
Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.
Martin Sheen
In Indian Country,” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will.
Gloria Steinem
There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.
Ronald Tudu
Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
DaShanne Stokes
Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.
Ingrid Betancourt
Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet.
Bryant McGill
Beautiful food and health are priceless.
Bryant McGill
We all draw breath and life from the same source of creation.
Bryant McGill
The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.
Bryant McGill
We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.
Bryant McGill
We live in a culture of violence.
Bryant McGill
What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?
Bryant McGill
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
Alice Walker
Life is a broken thing. It's what we do with the pieces that defines us.
Corban Addison
My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older,’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.
Ashton Applewhite
Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus?
Ched Myers
God loves a prayer of action.
Bryant McGill
God's favorite type of prayer is action.
Bryant McGill
Your positive thoughts are both the prayer, and the answer to your prayer.
Bryant McGill
Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.
Bryant McGill
Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film Sophie Scholl
Sophie Scholl
Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.
Bryant McGill
Why do you pray?" he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?"I don't know why," I said, even more disturbed and ill at ease. "I don't know why."After that day I saw him often. He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer. "Man raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him," he was fond of repeating. "That is the true dialogue. Man questions God and God answers. But we don't understand His answers. We can't understand them. Because they come from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. You will find the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!" "And why do you pray, Moshe?" I asked him. "I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
Elie Wiesel
The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
Mahatma Gandhi
Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because they were absorbing. Each one came out on a specific day of the week and was good for an hour of absorption.
Sarah Schulman
No Child of YoursI saw a child hide in the cornerSo I went and asked her nameShe was so naive and so petiteWith such a tiny frame. 'No one,' she replied, that's what I am calledI have no family, no one at allI eat, I sleep, I get depressedThere is no life, I have nothing left.''Why hide in the corner?' I had to ask twiceBecause I've been hurt, it not very niceI tried to stop it, it was out of my controlI feared for myself I wanted to go. I begged for my sorrow to disappearI turned in my bed, oh God, I knew they were near'So come on little girl, where do you goA path ahead, or a path to unknown?'With that she arose, her head hung lowShe held herself for only she knowsHer tears held back, her heart like iceIt looks as though she has paid the price.The ice started melting, her tears to flowThe memories flood back, still so many years to goThe pain, the anger all built up insideNowhere to run, nowhere to hide.It will get better, just wait and seeYou'll get a life, though you'll never be fireOpen your heart and love yourselfThe abuse you suffered was NOT your fault.
Teresa Cooper
When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar of Peace, find a Human Sunrise. Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality. Human sunrises are happening all over the earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and bare feet, and they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not. But they are working to bring peace, light, compassion, to the infinitely frightening downhill slide of Human life.
Alice Walker
One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards
Oche Otorkpa
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.
Rebecca Solnit
When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and afraid to share with anyone the memories that haunted me.
Erin Merryn
Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need.
Bryant McGill
You can talk about depression as a "chemical imbalance" all you want, but it presents itself as an external antagonist - a "demon," a "beast," or a "black dog," as Samuel Johnson called it. It could pounce at any time, even in the most innocuous setting.
Barbara Ehrenreich