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Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. June 1952  •  Other names غريغوري روبرتس

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“But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“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.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts Quotes about love

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

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“It doesnt always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts Quotes about heart

“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.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

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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.”

Gregory David Roberts

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

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“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.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts Quotes

“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.”

Gregory David Roberts

“The truth is a bully we all pretend to like”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“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.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“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.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Powerful people have no regrets.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Sometimes you have to lose to win”

Gregory David Roberts

“There's no such thing as forever.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

- Karla”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

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

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you..”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Ask people for help. You’ll be all right. Don’t worry. It’s a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun…”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“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”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“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.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

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