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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed1bf79 | Winston Churchill, who once defined a fanatic as someone who won't change his mind and can't change the subject. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7b98c43 | he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it | success-self-improvement | Gregory David Roberts | |
| dd82e52 | There's a dark feeling--less than hatred, but more than loathing--that ugly men feel for handsome men. It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy. It creeps out, into the light of your eyes, when you're falling in love with a beautiful woman. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c660903 | Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 05bd986 | There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0474e43 | I hate it all,' 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 | ||
| 3edb64b | I let my eyes drift into the maze of leaves that only trees understand. Hatred has its gravitational web, locking stray specks of confusion into spirals of violence. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a13d009 | Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life. Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c975389 | the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f8b0395 | the student is ready, the teacher appears--do | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f20fa8b | I looked in the mirror once more. The new clothes felt like salt on the raw wounds, but they covered the worst of it, and I looked less alarming, less confronting, less hideous. I smiled at the mirror. I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2943304 | There was a horrible, blood-freezing scream somewhere very close. I suddenly recognised it as my own, but I couldn't stop it. And I looked at the men, the brave and beautiful men beside me, running into the guns, and God help me for thinking it, and God forgive me for saying it, but it was glorious, it was glorious, if glory is a magnificent and raptured exaltation. It was what love would be like, if love was a sin. It was what music would .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 06f6449 | In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky. | skin sky stars | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 0e34efb | Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. | prayer prey prison | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 1239118 | Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f5c2887 | crosses | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9c12b4e | It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 47429a8 | It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 80bac1b | The Source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 1e2b11d | the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 1c2c653 | Khaderbhai once said that every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 53c7d28 | It was the desolate terror of a man who knows that fate has abandoned him, and death's already inside, stretching and swelling and filling up the life-space that used to be his. It | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| fcaa701 | The truth is a bully we all pretend to like. I | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 107ef9d | Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to the pleading of beggars, worked without a measure of it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 884c375 | and my heart was as clean and hungry for promises as a monsoon morning in the gardens of Malabar. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 851f195 | You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think? | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0f94727 | Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 2c121e4 | The ancient Sanskrit legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and enrapture one another. The legends say that the loved one is instantly recognised because she's loved in every gesture, every expression of thought, every movement, every sound, and every mood that prays in her eyes. The legends say that we know her by her wings--the wings that only we can see--and because wanting .. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6f9fa11 | 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. Most of the time, suffering is also a test of our love for God... I think that there are two points about suffering that we should remember, and they have to do with pleasure and pain. The first is this: that pain and suffering are connected, but they are not the same thing. Pain can exist with.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5c5eeac | Khaled, my first teacher, was the kind of man who carried his past in the temple fires of his eyes, and fed the flames with pieces of his broken heart. I've known men like Khaled in prisons, on battlefields, and in the dens where smugglers, mercenaries, and other exiles meet. They all have certain characteristics in common. They're tough, because there's a kind of toughness that's found in the worst sorrow. They're honest, because the truth.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| bd5c916 | Money isn't the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There's no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there's no clean way to make it. If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere, is suffering for it. That's one of the reasons, I think, why just about everybody--even people who'd never break the law in any other way--is happy to add an extra buck or two to their money on the black.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0e2466b | Suffering is the truth. Not suffering is the lie. I told you that, once before. That's just the way the world is. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 47a7f93 | And her forehead was always slightly creased in the centre, between the brows, as if she was grasping, in those soft folds of skin, the monstrous and pitiable understanding that no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0cca665 | fair . . . forgiving . . . punish . . . and save . . . | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4a943f6 | the student is ready, the teacher appears-- | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7847d62 | Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4effa21 | Whatever you do in life, do it with courage, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 81806c1 | He says that strong men make the luck to happen, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 696183a | Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 534d747 | into trouble we didn't need. And I tried to talk Khaderbhai out of it. I tried to get them to stop. But I didn't feel anything about it, even when they killed Madjid. And I . . . I used to like him, you know? I liked old Madjid. He was the best of them, in a way. But I didn't feel anything when he died. And I didn't feel it, not even a bit, when Khader told me he had to leave you in jail and let you get beaten up. I liked you--more than I l.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a379e8f | And when you left, I didn't feel anything at all. Not a thing. I didn't want to be forgiven because of what I did. I wanted to be forgiven--and I still | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4b474a3 | want it, and that's why I'm going to Khaled and Idriss--because I don't feel sorry for any of it, and I don't regret a thing. I'm cold inside, Lin. I like people, and I like things, but I don't love any of them--not even myself--and I don't really care about them. And, you know, the strange thing is, I don't really wish that I did care. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c62c3e5 | He'd been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I'd always | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b1d6cc0 | was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, 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 |