I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
Interpretation
We all hope for remarkable events to change our lives, despite facing great challenges.
In this quote, Khaled Hosseini reflects on the universal human experience of anticipation and hope, suggesting that despite the overwhelming challenges we face in life, there is a common yearning for extraordinary occurrences that might transform our reality. This longing can be both a source of motivation and a reminder of our resilience in the face of adversity.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire a crowd about resilience and hope.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'
I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
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