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
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• 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
  • Grace
  • Elegance

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

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• 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
  • Why
  • Home
  • Sports

• 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

• 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
  • Chaos

• It was a nice change of pace to come to work, put on a nice suit and stay clean all day.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • Work
  • Nice

• Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.

  

  J. Cole
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Devil

• The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Soul
  • Parents
  • Child

• If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Feeling
  • Red
  • Lipstick

• TV and more TV. It looks like something out of an old movie," Sam said. “Forty, fifty years ago, they were always dragging out the TV screens when they wanted to show what the glorious future would look like. As if the future was just going to be more TV.” “And, as it turned out, it is,” Rosa said.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Something

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

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Soul
  • Compassion
  • Satisfaction