Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
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I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.
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It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands. You'd love them to come to every big dance and every big game, but sometimes that's not possible.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.
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My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product.
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Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.
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You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?