But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Interpretation
It's preferable to face painful truths than to be falsely comforted by lies.
This quote emphasizes the value of truth, even when it is difficult to accept. Khaled Hosseini suggests that facing uncomfortable realities provides a stronger foundation for growth and understanding than living in the comfort of falsehoods, which can ultimately lead to greater harm.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
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.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.
Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.
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