But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
Interpretation
Time is often perceived as abundant, but it slips away faster than we realize.
This quote by Khaled Hosseini emphasizes the elusive nature of time, suggesting that people frequently underestimate how quickly it passes. It serves as a reminder to value each moment and use our time wisely, as we never really have as much of it as we believe.
In practice
In a motivational speech about productivity, you might cite this quote to encourage mindful time management.
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.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
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