Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

modified his position by agreeing that suffering was not necessarily a sign of weakness, but insisting that we could toughen ourselves against it with a strong will; strength of will coming from strict self-discipline, a kind of self-imposed suffering. Farid added to his notion of suffering as an anti-

I'd learned to admire his unshakeable optimism. I'd come to depend on the comforting warmth his great smile provided.

True to the general rule of slum life that the more money one made, the more poverty-stricken one had to look.

it was the source of a constant and almost unbearable pain.

Nel mondo è tutto sbagliato, e la cosa peggiore che si possa fare è continuare a vivere. Eppure bisogna continuare a vivere. E questo dilemma che ci fa credere alla bugia che esistano un'anima e un Dio che si preoccupa delle sorti.

czasami trzeba si? podda?, zanim si? wygra.

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.

But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.

MyÅ›lÄ™, ?e mÄ…dro?? to tylko spryt wypatroszony z odwagi. WolaÅ'abym by? sprytna ni? mÄ…dra.

The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him.

I tried to sound confident and strong, but there are some lies that the body just won't believe, and the words came out as a squeak.

The wound was beginning to knit well enough, but it was an angry red, with some flares of yellowish-white.

Her thick, black plait of hair was the rope by which a man might climb to heaven.

what we know about the universe, and our place in it, is constantly changing as we add more information and gain new insights.

There is only love, you know, in the whole world. There is only love …

Istnieje taki rodzaj szcz??cia, który polega gÅ'ównie na znalezieniu siÄ™ w odpowiednim miejscu we wÅ'aÅ›ciwym czasie, rodzaj natchnienia, który podpowiada tylko, jak zrobi? wÅ'aÅ›ciwÄ… rzecz w odpowiedni sposób, i to wszystko przychodzi jedynie wtedy, gdy oczyszczamy serce z ambicji, celów i planów, kiedy poddajemy siÄ™ bez reszty temu szcz??liwemu, opatrznoÅ›ciowemu momentowi.

I'd burned all the bridges that might've led me home.

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 market.

TwierdzÄ™, ?e rzeczywisto??, taka, jakÄ… znamy, jakÄ… zna ogóÅ', to nic wiÄ™cej ni? iluzja. Za tym, co widzimy oczami, istnieje inna rzeczywisto??. Trzeba jÄ… rozpozna? sercem. Nie ma innego sposobu.

endured the pain expressionlessly

Aren't you flirting with danger yourself?

The hosts—our bodies—and the viruses—any bug that makes us sick—are locked in a competition with each other. When the parasite attacks, the host develops a defence. Then the virus changes to beat that defence, so the host gets a new defence. And that keeps on going. They call it a Red Queen Contest. It's from the story, you know, Alice in Wonderland.

Kiedy jeste?my m?odzi, s?dzimy, ?e cierpienie to co?, co kto? nam mo?e zada?. Kiedy przybywa nam lat – kiedy zatrzaskuj? si? jakie? stalowe drzwi – wiemy ju?, ?e prawdziwe cierpienie mierzy si? tym, co nam odebrano.

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.