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 But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending. Gregory David Roberts stories running men Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God. Gregory David Roberts our-love tests suffering I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference. Gregory David Roberts hate mistake war Sometimes you have to lose to win Gregory David Roberts loses winning sometimes 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 good-woman winning men Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise. Gregory David Roberts surprise taken names Powerful people have no regrets. Gregory David Roberts regret powerful people 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 wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep. Gregory David Roberts laughter stars love-you Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes. Gregory David Roberts algebra tests 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 heaven world thinking A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be. Gregory David Roberts good-man strong men but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money. Gregory David Roberts misuse nations immune The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God. Gregory David Roberts passion real moving 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 fate hate heart In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate. Gregory David Roberts fate believe lying But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled. Gregory David Roberts soul forever heart We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive. Gregory David Roberts shantaram forgiving 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 justice trying way Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes. Gregory David Roberts know-how actors eye Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time. Gregory David Roberts people looks thinking
