Anthony de Mello Quotes
A disciple asked, 'Who is a Master?' The Master replied, 'Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
One rose says more than the dozen.
-
I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
-
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
-
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
-
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
-
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
-
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
-
I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
-
Habit is a great deadener.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
-
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
-
The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
-
I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
-
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
-
You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
-
I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.
-
As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.
-
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers.
-
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
-
In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
-
A disciple asked, 'Who is a Master?' The Master replied, 'Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.'
