If we envy someone for all the right reasons, we’re half way to wisdom.
Into trouble we didn’t need. And I tried to talk Khaderbhai out of it. I tried to get them to stop. But I didn’t feel anything about it, even when they killed Madjid. And I . . . I used to like him, y...
A strong man can make his own luck.
Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it’s a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.
Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, suffering is also a test of our love for God.
Every city has a village in its heart. You will never understand the city, unless you first understand the village.
Every human heartbeat, he’d said many times, is a universe of possibilities.
Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that’s greater than zero.
FORTY-SEVEN We found Diva in a shriek of Divas, in the lobby of the President hotel. The three of them stopped, staring at us with well-practised aghast. Didier was in a rumpled, white linen jacket an...
Fanaticism is the opposite of love,' I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai's lectures. 'A wise man once told me--he's a Muslim, by the way--that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded...
Fanatics, of all kinds, all have the same scrubbed and staring look about them, the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny’s walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil...
God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.
Happiness is a myth, Karla once said. It was invented to make us buy things.
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
I can’t stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there’s no river.
I felt a darkness growing within me that was too numb for sorrow and too cold for rage.
I heard a warning, deep within - we usually do , when something worse than we can imagine is stalking us, and set to pounce. Fate’s way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hea...
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