One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.
Interpretation
This quote teaches the importance of patience and waiting for the right moment to achieve our desires.
In this quote, Khaled Hosseini reflects on a childhood experience where impatience resulted in physical discomfort from eating unripe apples. The lesson learned from his mother's advice underscores the wisdom of waiting for things to come to fruition naturally, suggesting that immediate gratification can often lead to negative consequences.
In practice
During a motivational speech on personal growth, one might use this quote to emphasize the value of patience.
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
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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.
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.
Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow
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