Words matter. These are the best Saroo Brierley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
At the end of the day, I think people just need to start listening to their hearts and their gut feelings and their dreams, because that’s what I did.
My quest to find my first family would never have been actualized without technology.
Each time I go away internationally or even to the mainland, I always love coming back to Tasmania.
The streets of India are not safe for children, and every year, thousands are forced to live on the streets, avoiding being kidnapped or worse.
I do get recognised, but not as much as someone like Dev Patel or Nicole Kidman.
I don’t have a birth certificate.
Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don’t realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.
The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable opportunities, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively human capabilities.
When I first started coming to Calcutta, it brought back a lot of memories… the hardships I went through, the situations I was placed in, and the possibilities of those situations becoming so hostile.
I need to be mentally stimulated.
I don’t really have a worldview.
It’s easy to blame technology for what we perceive to be a vast disconnect between people. We’re so wrapped up in social media, texting, online dating – in many ways, we’re addicted to our devices.
I almost drowned in the Hooghly river, which is something really crazy. If there is something about Calcutta that scares me, it’s that.
Just as my search for my mother had in some ways shaped my life, her faith that I was alive had shaped hers. She couldn’t search, but she did the next best thing: She stayed still.
I see Calcutta as a place where I have a lot of memories… a lot of fond memories of coming back here and helping the children.
I’ve moved to Australia, to amazing parents who gave me unconditional love, to being educated and submerged in an amazing country and society.
The Hindi film that connects with my life story the most is the movie ‘Hero’ – two brothers being lost and sort of coming back.
It was a very scary place to be. I don’t think any mother or father would like to have their five year old wandering alone in the slums and train stations of Calcutta.
Follow your own path.
I’m still so grounded and so regimented, too. I’ve developed myself for such a long time – my characteristics and who I am – that if I try to change myself, my origins will pull me back.
I’m fairly sort of a laid-back and optimistic guy full of effervescence and vitality.
I tell my friends that ‘you don’t know how lucky you are to be in Tasmania, because when you go away internationally, you get to see it in its glory.’
Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.
We were a sport-oriented family. Because I was athletic, I made friends easily.
I don’t get asked this much – ‘Would you ever wanna see your father again?’ And the answer there is that I would like to see him again.
