I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
Interpretation
Navigating difficult situations can be disorienting, and making the wrong choice can lead to failure.
This quote by Khaled Hosseini emphasizes the disorientation and confusion that can accompany challenging situations, akin to being trapped under an avalanche. It suggests that in times of crisis, it is crucial to remain calm and make thoughtful decisions, as acting impulsively or without direction can lead to worsening one's predicament or even to failure.
In practice
During a speech about overcoming challenges in life.
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.
Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
We used to watch my father, who was a civil-rights activist, get arrested on TV sometimes, and we never knew if he was going to be home for dinner.
You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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