Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

Bryant McGill
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  2. If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them... - Cassandra Clare

  3. Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past. - Shannon L. Alder

  4. The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present. - Mike Norton

  5. In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost .. . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers. - Col. Thomas Aspinwall

More Quotes By Bryant McGill
  1. The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

  2. We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

  3. A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

  4. Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

  5. Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

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