Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
Interpretation
Hope can lead to peace, but it often comes with sacrifices or costs.
This quote reflects on the complex nature of hope and its relationship with peace. While hope can bring about a sense of tranquility and resolution, it prompts one to consider the sacrifices and challenges that one might endure to achieve that peace, suggesting that tranquility often comes at a significant cost.
In practice
During a speech about overcoming adversity, this quote can illustrate the journey towards achieving tranquility.
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 have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
I am better than my reputation
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.
This planet has β or rather had β a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
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