Gregory David Roberts Quotes

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.