Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
