Gregory David Roberts Quotes

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever.

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

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

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

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

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

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.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

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.

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.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

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.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

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

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.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

There's no heart like the Indian heart.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

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.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

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

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.

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

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

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

Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

I don't know what frightens me more

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

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