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

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

Gregory David Roberts
Fate, Laughing, Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

Gregory David Roberts
Eye, Heart, Fate
"Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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.

Gregory David Roberts
Teacher, Fate, Giving
Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.556, Macmillan

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

Gregory David Roberts
Tired, Fate, Waiting
"Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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

Gregory David Roberts
Fate, Two, Giving
Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.523, Hachette UK

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Gregory David Roberts
Hate, Fate, Men
Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.358, Macmillan

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become. Sooner or later we meet the drunkard, the waster, the betrayer, the ruthless mind, and the hate-filled heart. But fate loads the dice, of course, because we usually find ourselves loving or pitying almost all of those people. And it’s impossible to despise someone you honestly pity, and to shun someone you truly love.

Gregory David Roberts
Hate, Heart, Fate

In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

Gregory David Roberts
Lying, Believe, Fate
Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

Gregory David Roberts
Wall, Heart, Fate
Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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