Anthony de Mello Quotes
'I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.' 'Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?' 'I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?' 'You will have grown accustomed to it.'
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I try to win every tournament.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.
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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
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'I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.' 'Are you prepared to be ridiculed, ignored and starving till you are forty-five?' 'I am. But tell me: What will happen after I am forty-five?' 'You will have grown accustomed to it.'
