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Top 20 Saroo Brierley Quotes (2025 Update)

Saroo Brierley Quote: “Sometimes it felt as if the world had forgotten about us and our problems.”

1. “Sometimes it felt as if the world had forgotten about us and our problems.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

2. “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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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

3. “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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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Saroo Brierley Quote: “Self-pity was a deep well that if I once fell into, I might never get out.”

6. “Self-pity was a deep well that if I once fell into, I might never get out.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Saroo Brierley Quote: “For the first time, I told Mum that the place I was from was called “Ginestlay,” and when.”

8. “For the first time, I told Mum that the place I was from was called “Ginestlay,” and when.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “She also said she was proud of me, which is all anyone can wish to hear from his mother. The.”

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

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “Mum had decided that there was nothing sacrosanct about families formed only by birth parents. Though brought up Catholic, she and Dad thought the world had enough children born into it already, with many millions of them in dire need. They agreed that there were other ways to create a family beyond having children themselves.”

10. “Mum had decided that there was nothing sacrosanct about families formed only by birth parents. Though brought up Catholic, she and Dad thought the world had enough children born into it already, with many millions of them in dire need. They agreed that there were other ways to create a family beyond having children themselves.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “The world of adults was closed to me, so I continued to try to solve my problem by myself.”

13. “The world of adults was closed to me, so I continued to try to solve my problem by myself.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “Van toen af aan heb ik gedacht dat we huilen omdat ons lichaam iets probeert te verwerken wat ons hart en verstand te veel is.”

14. “Van toen af aan heb ik gedacht dat we huilen omdat ons lichaam iets probeert te verwerken wat ons hart en verstand te veel is.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “The necklace was more than just a beautiful object to call my own; for me, it was a concrete demonstration that there were good people in the world who were trying to help me. I still have it and it’s one of my most treasured possessions.”

15. “The necklace was more than just a beautiful object to call my own; for me, it was a concrete demonstration that there were good people in the world who were trying to help me. I still have it and it’s one of my most treasured possessions.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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”.”

19. “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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Saroo Brierley Quote: “The idea of having possessions took some getting used to.”

20. “The idea of having possessions took some getting used to.”

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Saroo Brierley Quote: “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.”

21. “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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