Anthony de Mello Quotes

To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

Anthony de Mello

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• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Media

• We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Why
  • Man

• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Peace
  • Justice

• We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Believe
  • Live
  • True

• If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • True
  • Want
  • Man

• Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Peace
  • Israel

• Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Strong
  • Peace
  • Election

• One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • True
  • Girl
  • Sad

• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Friends
  • True
  • Three

• The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Economic

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Happy
  • Movies
  • Taught

• If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Country
  • True
  • Expected

• When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Good
  • True
  • Look

• Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.

  

  George Washington
  • Love
  • True
  • Passion

• You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Guy
  • Football
  • Basketball

• In normal life, I'm just kind of chill. I don't normally get that angry.

  

  Katrina Law
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Chill

• I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good. That’s what I tried to do for the past 27 years.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • True
  • Peace
  • Ego