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.
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.
Powerful people have no regrets.
The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.
Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
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.
The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.
Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
There's no such thing as forever.
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?
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