If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself. Gregory David Roberts More Quotes by Gregory David Roberts More Quotes From Gregory David Roberts Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things. Gregory David Roberts shantaramworstpeople 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 oppositeslove-ispeople 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 raintoo-latemen The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world. Gregory David Roberts realworld Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction. Gregory David Roberts uniquecountrypeople More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India. Gregory David Roberts bombayindiadream The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India. Gregory David Roberts indiaviolencejourney Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black. Gregory David Roberts medicineblackkind Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Gregory David Roberts lonelinessfeelingsheart I don't know what frightens me more Gregory David Roberts shantaramknows Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything. Gregory David Roberts coursesknowswanted Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict. Gregory David Roberts shantaramenduresoldier When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare. Gregory David Roberts ramblingwishdream Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other. Gregory David Roberts pridebrotherblood 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 cuttingstrugglepast 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.\ Gregory David Roberts wallfateheart We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears. Gregory David Roberts sweatoceanblood Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful. Gregory David Roberts youexperiencelifepeople I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay. Gregory David Roberts neverlikedelhicrime
