Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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Love has no age.
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We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
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My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!
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Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.
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Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.
