Gregory David Roberts Quotes

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The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Gregory David Roberts
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.

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Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

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The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

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We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

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Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists." 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.

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What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?

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The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

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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.

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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.

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Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

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We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

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The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

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There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is— a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

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Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Gregory David Roberts
They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

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