Now reading: Shantaram by Gregory Davis Roberts
"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."
"'And what about love? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power.' 'They're wrong. Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.'"
"One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you."
"I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house."
"The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men. It is the deeds that have goodness or badness to them. Men are just men--it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone--the noblest man alive or the most wicked--has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God."
