Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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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.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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You can do marvels and miracles if you have developed the understanding of love.
