Quotes from Gregory David Roberts

The more slender your grip on reality, the more dangerous the world becomes. On the other hand, the more rational the world you find yourself in, the more carefully it must be questioned.

You can't serve God with a gun.

Esiste una diversità fra dolore e sofferenza: ciò che impariamo dal dolore - per esempio, che il fuoco scotta ed è pericoloso - è sempre individuale, mentre ciò che impariamo dalla sofferenza ci affratella, ci fa sentire parte della razza umana. Se sperimentiamo solo dolore, senza sofferenza, ciò che impariamo serve solo a noi stessi. Il dolore senza sofferenza è come una vittoria senza battaglia

Sometimes the lion must roar to remind the horse of his fear.

The enemy stalks you, step for step, and knows your every move before you make it. The enemy is your own grieving heart and, when it strikes, it can't miss.

The choices we make are branches in the tree of possibility.

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

If you'd been born and raised in Palestine, you'd know that some people are born to suffer. And it never stops, for them. Not for a second. You'd know where real suffering comes from. It's the same place where love and freedom and pride are born. And it's the same place where those feelings and ideals die. That suffering never stops. We only pretend it does. We only tell ourselves it does, to make the kids stop whimpering in their sleep.

It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart

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.

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

If the hour comes, and there's no one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else

The statement I do not hate you is a poem of passionate love.

India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.

Khaderbhai once said that if we envy someone for all the right reasons, we're half way to wisdom. I hope he wasn't right about that. I hope good envy takes you further than that, because a lifetime has passed since that day at the wire, and I still envy Anand's calm communion with fate, and I long for it with all my flawed and striving heart.

We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast.

Suffering, let me see. I think that suffering is a matter of choice. I think that we do not have to suffer anything in this life, if we are strong enough to deny it. The strong man can master his feelings so completely that it is almost impossible to make him suffer. When we do suffer things, like pain and so, it means that we have lost control. So I will say that suffering is a human weakness.

E' sempre un errore molto sciocco rimanere soli con qualcuno di cui non avresti mai dovuto innamorarti

it's a very hard thing to resist, real goodness, in a tough man.

Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it.

it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n kalplerinde bulduÄŸun gerçeÄŸi sev. Ve kendi kalbindeki sevginin sesine daima kulak ver.