Anthony de Mello Quotes

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Metamorphosis is important as long as we learn from everything.

Grace changes us and change is painful".

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Conversion is a daily thing.

When you are through changing, you are through.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.