Gregory David Roberts Quotes

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• Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

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  Life, Tears, Sometimes

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.307, Macmillan

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• you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

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  Regret, Hate, Love You

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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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  Games, Luck, Finding Yourself

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• If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

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  Fate, Laughing, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

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• A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has to earn her respect. then he has to cherish her trust. and then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, Yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you do that, you're not a man.

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  Winning, Men, Long

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• There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

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  Mistake, Path, Shantaram

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• Sometimes you have to lose to win

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  Winning, Sometimes, Loses

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• For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

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  Eye, Heart, Fate

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

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  Love Is, Opposites, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan

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• There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.

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  Inspiration, Heart, Ambition

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.110, Macmillan

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• If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?

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  Pain, Sadness, Ends

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.85, Macmillan

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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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  Teacher, Fate, Giving

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.556, Macmillan

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• The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

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  Hate, Choices, Forgiving

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

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  Dark, Past, Mirrors

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

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  Crush, Stars, Laughter

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

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  Love Is, Giving, Way

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.669, Macmillan

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• If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

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  Heart, Weapons, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.412, Macmillan

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• It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

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  Dream, Art, Love Is

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.327, Macmillan

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• I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

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  Thinking, House, Size

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.218, Macmillan

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• But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

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  Baby, Ocean, Sweat

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

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  Play, Feelings, Action

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.765, Macmillan

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Loneliness

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

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  Tired, Fate, Waiting

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

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  Loyalty, Honesty, Hate

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.483, St. Martin's Press

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• One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

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  Brave, Reason Why, Irony

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.337, Macmillan

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