Bert Hellinger (Anton Hellinger) Quotes

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

Bert Hellinger

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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Government
  • Proud
  • Group

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Day

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Time
  • Character
  • Experience

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Success
  • Myself
  • Failure

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• I'm a writer first and a singer second.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • First
  • Writer
  • Singer

• Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

  

  Karl Marx

• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Feelings
  • Admire
  • Vain

• Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Life

• Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Believe
  • Dominance

• What I've realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • People
  • World
  • Joy

• The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

  

  Bert Hellinger
  • Joy
  • Distress
  • Criteria