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Shantaram QUOTES

Shantaram QUOTES

81 " 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. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

82 " Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

83 " I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

84 " 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 , Shantaram

85 " I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

86 " The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

87 " 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 , Shantaram

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

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

89 " A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

90 " It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

91 " Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

92 " 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 , Shantaram

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

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

94 " 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 , Shantaram

95 " 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 , Shantaram

96 " Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

97 " but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money. "

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram

98 " 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 , Shantaram

99 " 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 , Shantaram

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

― Gregory David Roberts , Shantaram