Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.

Nirmala Srivastava

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• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

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• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  

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• I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

  

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• I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.

  

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• When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'

  

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• I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

  

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• I read French much better than I speak.

  

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• Artists talk in 'art speak.'

  

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• So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

  

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• It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.

  

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• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  

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• Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.

  

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• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

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  • Up
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• If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

  

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• I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

  

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• I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

  

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• I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

  

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  • Fight
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• Poland reminds us that sometimes the smallest steps, however imperfect, can ultimately tear down walls, can ultimately transform the world.

  

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• All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that utopianism altogether, even if it was naïve and ill-informed and sometimes silly. Rather I want us to ask about the obstacles that are preventing the good stuff from coming to fruition. Let's investigate and think about creating something worthwhile instead of assuming that there is an inevitable track of increased centralization, consolidation, and commercialization that we can't do anything about.

  

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  • Thinking
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• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

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  • World
  • Hero
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• We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Speak
  • Sincerity
  • Wellness