Top 33 Life Mello Quotes
#2. Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
Anthony De Mello
#3. The greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
Anthony De Mello
#5. I've reached the vanishing point
without you.
Here my heartache begins with your pain
trying to find an unborn start
in this fatal disappearance
From the poem 'Me with the Vanishing Point
Munia Khan
#6. Silence is not weakness and decency is not pride
Arthur Machen
#8. You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
Anthony De Mello
#9. There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
Jack Valenti
#10. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
Anthony De Mello
#11. How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
Anthony De Mello
#13. She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.
Glen Cook
#14. I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good ... I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.
Gabi Hollows
#15. What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
Anthony De Mello
#16. When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
Tamara Ecclestone
#17. We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
Anthony De Mello
#18. The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.
C. JoyBell C.
#22. When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
Anthony De Mello
#23. Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
Anthony De Mello
#24. A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.
Anthony De Mello
#25. It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters
Joel Brown
#26. Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
Anthony De Mello
#27. One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Anthony De Mello
#28. My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
Anthony De Mello
#29. You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
Anthony De Mello
#30. Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
Anthony De Mello
#31. 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.
Anthony De Mello
#32. This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding;
my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
Anthony De Mello
#33. Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.
Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen
