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.
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!
Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
No matter where you are in life, no matter what youβve contributed to creating, no matter whatβs happening, you are always doing the best you can with the understanding and awareness and knowledge that you have. And when you know more, you will do differently, as I did
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