“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
“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”Gregory David Roberts book ShantaramSource: Shantaram
“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”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
“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 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