Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.

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• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Will
  • Chaos
  • Winner

• I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Life
  • Normal

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Matter
  • Say
  • Wrong

• From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Inspiration

• I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Right

• I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Short

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Record
  • Track
  • Mandate

• My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Heroism
  • DNA

• I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Team
  • Going
  • Tough

• I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Happy

• You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Never
  • Win

• I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Free
  • Sweet
  • Dairy

• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Responsibility

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Kid

• Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

  

  Eben Moglen
  • Share
  • Products
  • Risks

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Eye

• There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

  

  Eustace Conway
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Humanity

• There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga