Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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Everyone watches everyone pitch. If they're doing good, you're trying to take something out of them. I've taken something from probably every average to above-average pitcher I've ever played with - what they do. You see what they do and how you can put that into your game.
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.
