Khaled Hosseini on life
Khaled Hosseini98 quotes“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.”
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini 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.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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