Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes
The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know about. Don't raise your voice just to raise your voice if you have nothing behind it and don't know what you're talking about.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
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I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.
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Television, when you're on the show, it becomes a big, happy family.
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To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.
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What holds attention determines action.
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Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts.
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The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
