Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

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• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

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• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

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• I really hate to write.

  

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• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

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• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

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• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

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• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  

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• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
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• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

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• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  

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• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

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• I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

  

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• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

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• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

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• I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.

  

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• What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

  

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• No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.

  

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• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

  

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• It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to 'capitalism', accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.

  

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• If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
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  • Wisdom