Quotes About Adversity

It was Homaira and me against the world. And I'll tell you this, Amir jan: In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Cesaret nedir haberin bile yok senin,dedi Eyüp Baba.Cesaret göstermek için bir ÅŸeyin tehlikede olmas? laz?m.Oysa ben buraya kaybedecek hiçbir ÅŸeyim olmadan geldim.

if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

Dan jika kau miskin, penderitaan menjadi mata uangmu.

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

For courage, there must be something at stake.

Zendagi migzara," he said. Life goes on.

You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright.

She said this in a pragmatic, almost indifferent, tone, and Mariam understood that this was a woman far past outrage. Here was a woman, she thought, who had understood that she was lucky to even be working, that there was always something, something else, that they could take away.

Em poucos anos, essa menina vai ser uma mulher que pede muito pouco da vida , que nunca incomoda ninguém, nunca deixa transparecer que ela também tem tristezas, desapontamentos, sonhos que foram menosprezados. Uma mulher que vai ser como uma rocha no leito de um rio, suportando tudo sem se queixar. Uma mulher cuja generosidade, longe de ser contaminada, foi forjada pelas turbulências que se abateram sobre ela.

I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings, Hassan said. His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had.

In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who makes small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she has had sorrows, disappointment, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in the riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, nah-­Ã¢â'¬Âkam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

Hanya ada aku dan Homaira melawan seluruh dunia. Dan aku memberitahumu Amir jan. Pada akhirnya, dunia akan selalu menang. Begitulah dunia berjalan.

Zendagi migzara. Life goes on.

Tapi seperti kata sang penyair; saat cinta menggoda, masalah pun tiba!

You know nothing of courage," said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.

marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on. Laila thinks of her own life and all that has happened to her, and she is astonished that she too has survived, that she is alive and sitting in this taxi listening to this man's story.

El único enemigo al que un afgano no puede derrotar es a sí mismo.

the only enemy an Afghan cannot defeat is himself.