Anthony de Mello Quotes

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

Anthony de Mello

• People
• Pain
• Progress

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • True
  • Perception

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Rest
  • Frustration

• You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • You
  • Taught
  • Brainy

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Political
  • Service

• The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Home
  • Job
  • America

• One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Why
  • Team
  • Competition

• Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Control
  • Single

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Years
  • Rain
  • Plants

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Light
  • Purpose
  • Darkness

• The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Fall
  • Hurt

• What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Business
  • Hand

• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • People
  • Business

• It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Pain
  • Progress