Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

With loss comes growth.

It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

It's definitely tough to get up and walk away from something you have been a part of for so long. But it's part of life.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.