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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f0c38ba | Whatever it was, I meant to take her up on it. I meant to go there, and look for her. But | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 31c2e0d | Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 30c091b | Love, like respect, isn't something you get; it's something you give. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3b638ec | Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion. Nothing exists, as we think it does. Not you. Not me. Not this room. Nothing. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e9a65a2 | This is why killing and stealing are wrong--not because a book tells us they are wrong, or a law tells us they are wrong, or a spiritual guide tells us they are wrong, but because if everyone did them we would not move toward the ultimate complexity that is God, with the rest of the universe. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8ee8754 | No smile would work, no goodbye would pray, no kindness would save, if the truth inside us wasn't beautiful. And the true heart of us, our human kind, is that we're connected, at our best, by purities of love found in no other creature. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 041caf7 | She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever known. It was the beauty of a desert at dawn: a loveliness that filled my eyes, and crushed me into silent, unbreathing awe. Looking | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8ca1523 | No, really, I'm fine. Come on, you're always defining everything for me. We were talking about suffering tonight, and I'm interested to know, what do you think about it?' 'Is easy--suffering is hungry, isn't it? Hungry, for anything, means suffering. Not hungry for something, means, not suffering. But everybody knows that.' 'Yes, I guess everybody does. Good night, Prabu.' 'Good night, Lin. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 79e9ba0 | Then, to the general comment--I think that suffering is the way we test our love. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| fdfcf08 | So ... when will it be the time for the getting on the train?' 'I think ... a little bit almost quite very soon, and not long. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e57710f | you are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely, to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e6a57a9 | Cand actionam, chiar cu cele mai bune intentii, cand ne amestecam in cursul lumii, riscam de fiecare data sa provocam un alt dezastru care s-ar putea sa nu fie direct infaptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil fara interventia noastra. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedreptati au fost provocate de oamenii care au incercat la un moment dat sa schimbe lucrurile. | people soul truth | Gregory David Roberts | |
| e2031a6 | Fiecare bataie de inima omeneasca, este un univers de posibilitati. | life universe | Gregory David Roberts | |
| ca978d6 | The artist was notoriously cantankerous and he assumed, at first, that we were trying to mock the gods, and him, with a prank or a hoax. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 51c7563 | Once we wandered a free Earth, carrying a picture of our God or king to ensure safe passage. Now the world is gated, and we carry pictures of ourselves, and nobody's safe. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9a5b39e | What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e92df36 | The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9ee9a06 | Exactly-merde and bad food, c'est l'amour. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 967447c | It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can fo.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 450d06f | A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic from his own religio. In fact, he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5af9c89 | Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9e5798a | They are not true Marxist, nor true Leninist. The Russians are imperialists. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5cc9d6a | Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky. Somewhere | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 20b5f58 | News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.' We | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4fcf139 | Ma devi amare i gatti! In un mondo perfetto tutti sarebbero come i gatti alle due del pomeriggio | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b42a978 | When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c9a71ad | You can't serve God with a gun. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 84da641 | Gli atti piu perfidi dei nostri simili colpiscono sempre la parte di noi che desidera amare il mondo. E quando subiamo una violazione, una piccola parte della vergogna che proviamo e quella di appartenere alla razza umana. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| bd9964e | There is no man, and no place, without war. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8b0353c | No matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ce86129 | God help us. God forgive us. We live on. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7186abd | kurtapyjama. His face was deeply lined, and his white | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6279868 | I sighed, sure in my own mind that the new war would change nothing: that wars can't really change things. It's peace that makes the deepest cuts, I thought. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dc95e77 | I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot. And this boiling resentment, you see, this anger, is w.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3f62689 | Love makes men big, and hate makes them small. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| eed7247 | Sometimes the worst thing you can do to a woman is to love her. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5c248c3 | Crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 41f94cf | Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 782f17d | In the beginning we feared everything - animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky - everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No one knows why anyone does anything. No one tells the truth. No one is happy. No one is safe. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 93869e8 | Every city has a village in its heart. You will never understand the city, unless you first understand the village. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f6b053b | There's no such thing as forever. I don't know why we use the word. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5295f7c | I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5ded3dc | E la scelta che fai, odio o perdono, puo diventare la storia della tua vita | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7dc3d5b | All political systems favour the powerful rich over the defenceless poor. | Gregory David Roberts |