Sometimes you have to lose to win Gregory David Roberts More Quotes by Gregory David Roberts More Quotes From Gregory David Roberts Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians, French, Americans. Tourists from everywhere. Eating, drinking, talking, laughing. And from Bombay - Indians and Iranians and Afghans and Arabs and Africans. But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamic for their place, and their time, and the lives of thousand of people? I will tell you - four. Four people in this room with power, and the rest are like the rest of the people everywhere: powerless, sleepers in the dream. Gregory David Roberts realdrinkingdream I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life. Gregory David Roberts pivotal-momentsdemandfacts We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years. Gregory David Roberts eightmenyears Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business Gregory David Roberts privacyshowersrain Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun. Gregory David Roberts gunglorymean The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them. Gregory David Roberts heartmenmean Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it. Gregory David Roberts making-moneylazystupid There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered. Gregory David Roberts depressingadviceyears There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't. Gregory David Roberts shantaramknowing-godbelieve It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world. Gregory David Roberts hatedoeworld Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there. Gregory David Roberts shellsshouldnuts 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 greatest-feargonefirsts The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love. Gregory David Roberts afghanvoicehalf 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 happy-endingsstoriesrunning You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time Gregory David Roberts shantarampeople 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 elephantsprideheart It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts. Gregory David Roberts shantaramhurtsecret I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about. Gregory David Roberts persons 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 princessgirlcountry Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win. Gregory David Roberts surrenderwinningsometimes
