Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
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I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.
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If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.
