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.
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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