Anthony de Mello Quotes

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.

I just can't help but see things differently.

Anything can be interesting as long as you access it from the right angle.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

I'm a curious human being, and I love things that are a little bit off.

Different is good.

The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.

It's only when you look back sometimes and you look at some people in your life and you're like, Oh my god, there was something so pure about that. The thing that kind of bugged me, maybe, is the thing that's so unique.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.

Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.