Simple Reminders Quotes

“Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is your only hope. When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you. Some people never get to see what is inside them; what beauty, what strength, what truth and love. They were never broken open by the storm. So, don't run from your pain — run into your pain. Let life's storm shatter you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Who were you before the world told you what you were not?”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“If you are rude, cynical, habitually-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical, less apt to blame and less tormented by others and their faults and views.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Unless someone is trying to help you, don't you dare, ever let anyone tell you who and what you are, because, on this planet, you are the unquestionable and supreme authority on — you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“To understand the journey you have to do the walking.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Real love sometimes means saying goodbye.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction. This is how we are refined by our pain. When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again. The storm gives us the gift of our defining choices. You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection. People who stay perfect and unblemished never really get to live fully or deeply. You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life