Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

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• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Acting is in your soul.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Soul
  • Acting
  • Your

• I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Like
  • Queen
  • Elizabeth

• Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Character
  • Hand
  • Intelligence

• Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Reason
  • Body
  • Common Sense

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • May
  • Together

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • History
  • True
  • Law

• I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Pretty
  • Cancer
  • Being

• The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Work
  • Together
  • Best

• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Husband

• I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • She
  • Player

• There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Parents
  • Always
  • Opinion

• Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

  

  Paul Davies
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Differences

• Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Men
  • Different
  • Love

• I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.

  

  Lindsay Pearce
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Free

• I've always been into writing love songs.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Song

• Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.

  

  Isabelle Kocher
  • Business
  • Wisdom
  • Religion

• Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga