Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
Interpretation
Hope can lead to peace, but it often comes with sacrifices or costs.
This quote reflects on the complex nature of hope and its relationship with peace. While hope can bring about a sense of tranquility and resolution, it prompts one to consider the sacrifices and challenges that one might endure to achieve that peace, suggesting that tranquility often comes at a significant cost.
In practice
During a speech about overcoming adversity, this quote can illustrate the journey towards achieving tranquility.
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.
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end⦠because how could the end be happy?
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.
Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.
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