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Shantaram
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What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
“And I’d learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future,’ she said slowly. ‘I think the future is like anything else that’s important. It has to be earned. If we don’t earn it, we don’t have a future at all. And if we don’t earn it, if we don’t deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that’s probably what love is—a way of earning the future.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We’re helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn’t always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabaker told it to me, just as I’m telling it to you now.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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