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 More Quotes by Gregory David Roberts More Quotes From Gregory David Roberts The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life. Gregory David Roberts forgiving hate choices A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion Gregory David Roberts buddhist christian wise nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be. Gregory David Roberts great-love half grieving Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. Gregory David Roberts passionate forever love-is But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears. Gregory David Roberts sweat ocean baby 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 irony brave reason-why I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot. Gregory David Roberts growing-up hurt sorry when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy. Gregory David Roberts shantaram judging enemy Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give Gregory David Roberts love-is giving way I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it. Gregory David Roberts shantaram crush powerful Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla Gregory David Roberts pride heart thinking The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it. Gregory David Roberts sports men past Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting Gregory David Roberts fate tired waiting 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 tears sorrow dawn There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now. Gregory David Roberts hate clever heart Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are. Gregory David Roberts true-to-yourself being-true be-true-to-yourself The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open. Gregory David Roberts eye revenge sex Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart. Gregory David Roberts shantaram body heart every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities. Gregory David Roberts possibility beats heart There's no heart like the Indian heart. 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