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.
If you yearn for holy felicity, _x000D_ shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.
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