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.
heart shantaram indian
There's no heart like the Indian heart.
sex revenge eye
The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
heart possibility beats
every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
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.
hate doe world
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.
strong men good-man
A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
heart body shantaram
Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
wall hate men
While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
love-is opposites shantaram
Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
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.
teacher fate giving
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.
use way purpose
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.
brother pride blood
Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.