Anthony de Mello Quotes

'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'

Anthony de Mello

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• Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Will

• When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • Care
  • Feelings

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Question

• Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Water
  • Best
  • Training

• The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Career
  • Success
  • Beginning

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Soul
  • Universe

• Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Rest

• I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Good
  • Remember

• I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

  

  Christopher Walken

• It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Great
  • Adventure

• I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Serious
  • Moment
  • Wedded

• My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

  

  Lisa Kristine
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Son

• That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Music

• I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • People

• I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Color
  • Green
  • Purple

• I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'

  

  Craig Bruce
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• It's gratifying when younger women come up and say, 'I went to law school because of you.' My heart swells; then it's like, wait, are you glad, or do you blame me?

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Up
  • Women
  • School

• The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Men
  • Real
  • Science

• I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

  

  Stephan Pastis
  • Strips
  • Panel
  • Indicate

• The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Serenity

• 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • God
  • Alone

• I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

  

  Jean Genet
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Green

• 'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Serenity