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Quotes About Understanding

There are things that have to be taught, others learnt from books; but there are some things that you just have to see and feel.
~ Khaled Hosseini
People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Kata Ayah, mimpi selalu punya arti.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I remembered how, as a boy, I would stew over all the things Mama wouldn't do, things other mothers did. Hold my hand when we walked. Sit me up on her lap, read bedtime stories, kiss my face good night. Those things were true enough. But, all those years, I'd been blind to a greater truth, which lay unacknowledged and unappreciated, buried deep beneath my grievances. It was this: that my mother would never leave me.
~ Khaled Hosseini
People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes. I
~ Khaled Hosseini
Aún no nos han presentado como es debido —dije. Le tendí la mano—. Soy Amir. Miró primero la mano y luego a mí. —¿Eres el Amir del que me hablaba agha padre?
~ Khaled Hosseini
You like big words? I´ll give you one: perspective. That´s what I´m doing here, Laila. Making sure you don´t lose perspective.´ What turned Laila´s stomach the rest of the night was that every word Rasheed had uttered, every last one, was true.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Man säger inte till någon att putsa skorna åt en ena dagen och tilltalar henne som en syster nästa.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Talvez compreender apenas quando as coisas já não têm remédio seja o castigo justo para os que não tiveram coração.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I wanted to pull him close, hold him, tell him the world had been unkind to him, not the other way around.
~ Khaled Hosseini
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle…Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
~ Khaled Hosseini
One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I firmly believed that if I had picked up a rifle and gone on a murdering rampage, I would have still had the benefit of her unblinking love.
~ Khaled Hosseini
field. I'll meet you there.
~ Khaled Hosseini
In my experience, men who understand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
~ Khaled Hosseini
In my experience, men who undestand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Thalia, I want you to know that you don't have to wear that thing in this house anymore. Not on my account. Nor his. Do it only if it suits you. I have no more to say about this business.
~ Khaled Hosseini
But I think a big part of the reason I didn't care about Soraya's past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Une isha si nje pacient qe nuk i thote dot mjekut se ku i dhemb, por vetem qe ka dhembje.
~ Khaled Hossini
The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.
~ Khushwant Singh
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind When just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs.
~ Khushwant Singh
You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?
~ Kiana Davenport
Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.
~ Kierkegaard
La vita può essere capita solo all'indietro, ma va vissuta in avanti.
~ Kierkegaard