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The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
Afghan
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Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
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So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
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If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
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but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
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The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
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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.
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Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.
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Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting
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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
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You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
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Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.
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Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
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The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
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Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.
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It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\
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every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
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Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
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