Saroo Brierley Quotes

#1. If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Not having enough to eat paralyzes you and keeps you living hour by hour instead of thinking about what you would like to accomplish in a day, week, month, or year. Hunger and poverty steal your childhood and take away your innocence and sense of security. But

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#3. Sometimes it felt as if the world had forgotten about us and our problems.

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#4. In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Mason Cooley

#5. was a juvenile detention centre, called Liluah, housing

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#6. I'd learned quickly, as a matter of survival, that I needed to take opportunities as they came - if they came - and to look forward to the future.

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#7. Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Thomas Browne

#8. My return seemed to inspire and energize the neighborhood, as though it was evidence that the hard luck of life did not have to rule you. Sometimes miracles do happen.

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#9. We all reach a point as young adults when we wonder what we should be doing with our lives - or, at the very least, which direction to point ourselves in. Beyond the means to get by, we need to think about what's most important to us. Not surprisingly, I discovered that for me the answer was family.

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#10. Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember that you are your tree's only friend in a hostile world.

Hope Jahren

#11. Men made life far too difficult when they insisted on neatly categorizing their emotions. When emotions became complicated, they brooded and struggled so mightily in an attempt to simplify them again - when, given time, everything would sort itself out and slide into its place.

Meljean Brook

#12. Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more?

Marian Keyes

#13. Adoptees, whether or not they ever knew their birth parents, often describe the constant, gnawing feeling of there being something missing: without a connection, or at least the knowledge of where they are from, they feel incomplete.

Saroo Brierley

#14. carrying laborer to teacher and manager. It seems a bittersweet result of the family's loss that the remaining children had managed to lift themselves out of poverty.

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#15. My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".

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#16. She also said she was proud of me, which is all anyone can wish to hear from his mother. The

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#17. One of the most touching things my mother said to me was that if I ever wanted to come back to live in India, she would build me a home and go out and work hard so that I could be happy.

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#18. Everyone within the sound of my voice has the power to increase a child's confidence in himself or herself and to increase a child's faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ through the words they speak.

Rosemary M. Wixom

#19. I was about to embark on a high-tech version of what I'd done in my first week there, twenty years ago, randomly taking trains out to see if they went back home. I took a deep breath, chose a train line, and started scrolling along it.

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#20. I'd had to learn some of these differences, too. Mum remembers taking me somewhere in the car once when I looked at her and said, "Lady no drive." She pulled over and said, "If lady no drive, then boy walk!" I quickly learned my lesson.

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#21. My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

Zach Galifianakis

#22. Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Billy Gibbons

#23. Hunger limits you because you are constantly thinking about getting food, keeping the food if you do get your hands on some, and not knowing when you are going to eat next.

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#24. For the first time, I told Mum that the place I was from was called "Ginestlay," and when

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#25. That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin.

Giles Fraser

#26. You can't remain in a state of sheer panic and terror indefinitely, and both had run their course. Ever since, I've thought that must be why we cry: our bodies are coping with something our minds and hearts can't absorb by themselves.

Saroo Brierley

#27. The idea of having possessions took some getting used to.

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#28. I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Colin Powell

#29. You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

Hilary Swank

#30. I feel strongly that from my being a little lost boy with no family to becoming a man with two, everything was meant to happen just the way it happened. And I am profoundly humbled by that thought.

Saroo Brierley

#31. It will be difficult to help if you create a Culture of No, Diane.

Joseph Fink