“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give”Gregory David Roberts book ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: Shantaram
“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”Gregory David Roberts book ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: Shantaram
“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”Gregory David Roberts book ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: Shantaram
“Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.”Gregory David Roberts book ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: Shantaram
“We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”Gregory David Roberts book ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: Shantaram
“It doesnt always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.”Gregory David Roberts book ShantaramSource: 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 ShantaramSource: Shantaram