Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you're in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who's completely untrustworthy, who at their core can't even believe in themselves?

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That's the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections.

How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.

Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.