Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.

Nirmala Srivastava

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• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
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• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
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• When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Job
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  

  Hank Aaron
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• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Weird

• I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Think
  • Me
  • Day

• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Men

• 'I assure you, paladin king, that if I had a sword in hand, I would willingly cut out your heart, here and now. If you expect me to beg look elsewhere. The fool monk can bring me to my knees, but if I am not there of my own choosing, then calling it begging would ring as hollow as does your crown, yes?' -Artemis Entreri

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • King

• But don't worry... only yours is right.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Worry

• Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.

  

  Vanity

• Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Up
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• You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Country
  • Law
  • Fire

• Of course I base my characters partly on the people I know-one can’t escape it-but fictional characters are oversimplified; they’re much less complex than the people one knows.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People

• And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Mind
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• All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Thoughts
  • Have

• I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

  

  Norval Morrisseau
  • People
  • Painting
  • Compassion

• I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter

• Primitivism has become the vulgar cliche of much modern art and speculation. (p. 77)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Art

• Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Soul
  • Compassion
  • Satisfaction