Mataji Nirmala Quotes & Sayings

Creation is the eternal play of the Divine (Parabrahma, the Totality).

You cannot adequately describe the majesty of a tree by talking about a flower, a branch or the bark.
The source cannot be fully explained by describing its manifestations. — Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

This singularity of meaning
I was my face, I was ugliness
though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it
my face as personal vanishing point. — Lucy Grealy

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car. — Andrew Davies

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses. — Marcus Buckingham

King David is a wonderful example of a well-balanced man who was a warrior fighting battles on some days and a gentle, harp-playing composer on other days. — Vicki Courtney

Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome. — John Wooden

Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring. — Emily Oster

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it. — Craig Finn

For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured. — Ignatius Of Antioch

Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don't ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as the medium itself, defining comics entails cutting a Gordian-knotted enigma wrapped in a mystery ... — Robert C. Harvey

It never happens that a new constellation suddenly rises out of the east. There is an order, a predictability, a permanence about the stars. In a way, they are almost comforting. — Carl Sagan

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians, — David Halberstam

We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. — Majid Kazmi