The Orphan Keeper Quotes

“...there's goodness and purpose and reason out there. Believe it, embrace it, trust it. Life will always be hard, but if we do our best, if we persist, we can make a difference---and good will win out over evil, love will conquer hate...”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“All I am saying is relax. Listen to the wind, feel the water. See where life’s breeze wants to take you. Look, if God wants to give you a bigger oar or two, he will. He has plenty. There are times, however, when he’s trying to blow us one way and we’re paddling like crazy the other. Occasionally we just need to stop and be grateful.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Chellamuthu expected to feel heroic by helping Anu recover. Instead it was just hard work. Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don’t share: Courage comes from doing common things.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“We don’t use knives and forks,” Pranay replied, leaning forward, “because we are not at war with our food. We don’t need weapons. We have learned it is better to surrender to the flavors, to caress and embrace them. You see, eating for Indians is a passionate affair. Picking up the food with our fingers evokes a closeness, a feeling of warmth, a connection. It would all be lost if we started stabbing and cutting.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“there is a declaration in our sacred texts that reads ‘Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,’ which means ‘The whole world is a family.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“It took me the entire day watching the sun plod across the sky, but Lord Shiva helped me understand that my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could—one single day. Each day. That was all.” She drew a steadied breath. “So from that day on, I have continued to get up in the morning and offer that light, as much as I am able, in my own small way.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Life never stops, child. Even when it's noisy, unpleasant, painful, it's still the sound of duty, of love, of family, of laws older than time that help us to ultimately find contentment- to be happy. It's the sound of our universe. It's the sound of purpose.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,’ which means ‘The whole world is a family.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“He has dark skin,” she said to Rux, jumping right to her point, “because God is an astounding artist, and like you, he loves to paint with many different colors.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could—one single day. Each day.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Seek dharma, child. Find out how you fit in, who you are. Remember that everything around you has a purpose. Even you, child.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“When God works in our lives, those without faith like to call it chance. Those who believe call it a miracle. I don’t know where you land on that scale, but I’m suggesting God is not as distant as you may believe.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Perhaps there are times He trusts us enough to move forward without giving us every little answer.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“you’ve spent so much of your life in emotional survival mode. Of course you have a hole. Anyone would. We all live with holes of some kind or another, and we spend our lives trying to fill them—so quit fighting it.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Everyone holds secrets that need protecting.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“My name is Chellamuthu,” he said. “I want you to know that once upon a time in India, I rode with my father on a bus in a box.” The children, having no clue what he was saying, began to giggle. He continued anyway. “I was surrounded by people—talking, laughing, and joking—like today, and nobody at all knew that I was even there or what I wanted to say.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“If a child is kidnapped from hell and carried to heaven, should we condemn the kidnapper?”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“But if life could be worse, didn’t that mean it could also be better?’” As it was, he settled for odd jobs, harvesting occasional crops, living a life that was destined never to rise above the menial. He was proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“It took me the entire day watching the sun plod across the sky, but Lord Shiva helped me understand that my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could—one single day. Each day. That was all.” She drew a steadied breath. “So from that day on, I have continued to get up in the morning and offer that light, as much as I am able, in my own small way.” Arayi sat tall. “That is why you greet the”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Does your belief help you to become a better person, to grow, to progress? That is our only concern.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Courage comes from doing common things.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Desire without a plan is only a dream,”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Was all this mess just part of God’s master plan?”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Sometimes the roads we choose in life are just messy.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Worries, he'd learned, are like rabbits: they compound in the dark.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

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― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper

“Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don’t share: Courage comes from doing common things.”
― Camron Wright, The Orphan Keeper