Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Robertsis an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryAustralia
differences gossip people
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.
be-true-to-yourself true-to-yourself being-true
Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.
i-love-you happiness heartbreak
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
love-is opposites shantaram
Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
sex revenge eye
The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
war fighting men
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.
inspiration heart ambition
There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.
hero dubious three
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
heart weapons shantaram
If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.
tests algebra
Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.
brave reason-why irony
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.
heart body shantaram
Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
baby ocean blood
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.
fate two giving
Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do