Life & Wisdom Quote by Bryant H. McGill

McGill is selling a kind of democratic awe: the idea that human worth is widely distributed, not concentrated in the famous, the like-minded, or the conveniently close. The phrasing "amazingly wonderful" is deliberately overbright, almost devotional, but it functions as a counterspell to our default sorting habits. We live by shortcuts - status, tribe, résumé, algorithm - and his sentence structure keeps tugging against that. "Some familiar to us and others not" quietly indicts the way we equate familiarity with value, as if the people we already know are the only ones worth knowing.

The key imperative is "Stretch yourself". It frames connection as effortful, even mildly uncomfortable, not a passive vibe. McGill isn't romanticizing the world as automatically benevolent; he's proposing a practice: widen your aperture, interrupt your patterns, go past the first impression. In that sense the quote reads like self-help, but its subtext is civic. If you actually believe "all walks of life" contain "treasures", you can't keep treating service workers, outsiders, or ideological opponents as background scenery.

"People are...one of our greatest treasures" is also a subtle rebuke to consumer culture's definitions of wealth. Treasure here isn't private property; it's relational capital, attention, time, curiosity. Coming from a contemporary motivational author, the context matters: this is an internet-age ethic of empathy, pitched as personal enrichment but aiming at something bigger - a social life less governed by cynicism and segmentation.