Anthony de Mello Quotes
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
Quotes to Explore
-
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
-
Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
-
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
-
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
-
I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
-
There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
-
Any powerful technology can be abused.
-
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
-
Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
-
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
-
There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
-
I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
-
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
-
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
-
The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
-
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
-
I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.
-
The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.
-
We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.
-
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
-
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
