Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.Nirmala Srivastava
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
Edmund White -
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp -
What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
Dan Maffei -
I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
Pat Summitt -
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
J Allard
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I really hate to write.
Jack Kerouac -
Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry -
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
Gary Cole -
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
Taylor Caldwell
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
Olivia Munn -
I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
Sam Cooke -
Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
Otto Penzler -
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
Pat Gillick -
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson
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(Gates) is one of the most important business leaders of his age.
Jack Straw -
I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.
Oprah Winfrey -
Loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round.
Robert Frost -
You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).
Jean Chatzky -
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
Anthony Trollope -
Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.
Nirmala Srivastava