Quotes About Resilience

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

the only enemy an Afghan cannot defeat is himself.

Recordé algo que en una ocasión Baba había mencionado sobre los pastunes. «Puede que seamos cabezotas, y sé que somos excesivamente orgullosos, pero, en un momento de necesidad, créeme que no hay nadie mejor que un pastún a tu lado.»

But somehow, over these last months, Laila and Aziza—a harami like herself, as it turned out—had become extensions of her, and now, without them, the life Mariam had tolerated for so long suddenly seemed intolerable.

Tak ada lagi kebaikan di tanah ini dan kami tidak bisa melarikan diri dari kematian. Pembantaian selalu mengancam.

Look at me. Mariam did. Only one skill. And it's this: tahamul. Endure. Endure what, Nana? Oh, don't you fret about that, Nana said. There won't be any shortage of things.

Las malas hierbas del desierto siguen con vida, pero la flor de primavera florece y se marchita. Qué gracia, qué dignidad, qué tragedia.

Rubble and beggars. Everywhere I looked, that was what I saw.

Mariam SEPTEMBER 1997

Mariam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

Intotdeauna e mai dureros sa ai si sa pierzi, decat sa nu fi avut deloc.

questa vita che ci impone di sopportare dolore dopo dolore anche quando abbiamo superato ogni soglia di sopportazione.

Laila ascoltava, sperando che la mamma si accorgesse che lei, Laila, non era diventata una shahid, che era viva, lì, nel letto accanto a lei, e che come tutti nutriva una speranza per il proprio futuro. Ma Laila sapeva che il suo futuro non poteva competere con il passato dei fratelli. Le avevano fatto ombra da vivi, l'avrebbero cancellata da morti.

I think of him now, ragged and lost, staggering across a desert, the path behind him littered with all the shiny little pieces that life has ripped from him.

Most of our neighbors in Fremont were bus drivers, policemen, gas station attendants, and unwed mothers collecting welfare, exactly the sort of blue-collar people who would soon suffocate under the pillow Reganomics pressed to their faces.

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. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

Khaled Hosseini

turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Almost ten years. But, for a moment, standing there with Tariq in the sunlight, it was as though those years had never happened. Her parents' deaths, her marriage to Rasheed, the killings, the rockets, the Taliban, the beatings, the hunger, even her children, all of it seemed like a dream, a bizarre detour, a mere interlude between that last afternoon together and this moment.

Zindagi Migzara

Sudut pandang adalah kemewahan saat kepalamu terus diterpa dengungan yang mengerikan.

I remembered something Baba had said about Pashtuns once. 'We may be hardheaded and I know we're far too proud, but, in the hour of need, believe me that there's no one you'd rather have at your side than a Pashtun.

Existuje spôsob, ako sa staÃ…Â¥ zase dobrým...

It was Honiara 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.