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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
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories. ~ Hasan Minhaj
Shantaram quotes by Hasan Minhaj
A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time. ~ Anonymous
Shantaram quotes by Anonymous
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
They'd lied to me and betrayed me, leaving jagged edges where all my trust had been, and I didn't like or respect or admire them any more, but still I loved them. I had no choice. I understood that, perfectly, standing in the white wilderness of snow. 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. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
There's no believing in God ... We either know God, or we don't. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it's impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civilizations in resurrection and decay. Its the blue skin-smell of the sea, no matter where you are in the island city, and the blood metal smell of machines. It smells of the stir and sleep and the waste of sixty million animals, more than half of them humans and rats. It smells of heartbreak, and the struggle to live, and of the crucial failures and love that produces courage. It smells of ten thousand restaurants, five thousand temples, shrines, churches and mosques, and of hunderd bazaar devoted exclusively to perfume, spices, incense, and freshly cut flowers. That smell, above all things - is that what welcomes me and tells me that I have come home.

Then there were people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konark; warrior caste, Brahmin, and untouchable; Hindi, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsee, Animist; fair skin and dark, green eyes and golden brown and black; every different face and form of that extravagant variety, that incoparable beauty, India. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
I don't know what frightens me more ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, you heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is an universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Like most things, and most people, it's not as bad as it looks from the outside. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore. ~ Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram quotes by Gregory David Roberts
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