110+ Gregory David Roberts Quotes On Education, Order And Empowering

Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict, convicted bank robber and fugitive who escaped from an Australian prison and spent ten years in India. He is also the founder of the Shantaram Foundation, which works to improve the lives of underprivileged children in India. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Gregory David Roberts on love, education, life.

Top 10 Gregory David Roberts Quotes

1. Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting
2. There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.
3. If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
4. Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
5. The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
6. The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
7. Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.
8. The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
9. The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
• The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
• There's no heart like the Indian heart.
• When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
• More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
• Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.
• Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.
• every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
• Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
• A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Gregory David Roberts Quotes About Love

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep. — 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

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

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God. — 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

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

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it. — 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

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

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough. — Gregory David Roberts

Gregory David Roberts Quotes About Life

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

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

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

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla — Gregory David Roberts

The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love — Gregory David Roberts

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see. — Gregory David Roberts

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

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

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life. — Gregory David Roberts

Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun. — Gregory David Roberts

Gregory David Roberts Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here? — 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

I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future. — Gregory David Roberts

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. — Gregory David Roberts

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

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate. — Gregory David Roberts

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other. — Gregory David Roberts

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house. — Gregory David Roberts

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts. — 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

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists." Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion. — Gregory David Roberts

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time. — Gregory David Roberts

I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about. — Gregory David Roberts

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

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world. — Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise. — Gregory David Roberts

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

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside. — Gregory David Roberts

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. — Gregory David Roberts

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

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be. — Gregory David Roberts

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise. — Gregory David Roberts

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long. — Gregory David Roberts

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way. — Gregory David Roberts

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself. — Gregory David Roberts

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

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say. — Gregory David Roberts

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get. — Gregory David Roberts

Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are. — Gregory David Roberts

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

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

Sometimes you have to lose to win — Gregory David Roberts

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. — Gregory David Roberts

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become. — Gregory David Roberts

If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose. — Gregory David Roberts

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity? — Gregory David Roberts

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving. — Gregory David Roberts

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

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

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water — Gregory David Roberts

Silence is the tortured man's revenge. — Gregory David Roberts

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

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

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it. — Gregory David Roberts

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there. — 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

I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them. — Gregory David Roberts

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things. — Gregory David Roberts

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

I don't know what frightens me more — Gregory David Roberts

Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes. — Gregory David Roberts

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't. — Gregory David Roberts

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you. — 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.\ — Gregory David Roberts

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words — 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

If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it? — Gregory David Roberts

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much. — Gregory David Roberts

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved. — 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

Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that 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

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like — 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

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts

There's no such thing as forever. — Gregory David Roberts

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

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded. — Gregory David Roberts

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around — Gregory David Roberts

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business — Gregory David Roberts

Powerful people have no regrets. — Gregory David Roberts

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love. — Gregory David Roberts

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

The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your 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

Life Lessons by Gregory David Roberts

1. Gregory David Roberts' work emphasizes the power of resilience and the importance of never giving up in the face of adversity.
2. His stories also illustrate the importance of staying true to oneself and never compromising one's values.
3. Through his stories, Roberts encourages readers to embrace the beauty of life and to take risks in order to pursue their dreams.