Anthony de Mello Quotes
'Why is everyone here so happy except me?' 'Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere,' said the Master. 'Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?' 'Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.'
Quotes to Explore
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
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Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
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Desistance from sin makes one entirely happy.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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At the end, I have to take the court I get scheduled on.
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With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.
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'Why is everyone here so happy except me?' 'Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere,' said the Master. 'Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?' 'Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.'
