"In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I w...

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
~ Khaled Hosseini ~












I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinar...
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"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
"Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadom...
"and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
"My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want th...
"And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.
"Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her.But as she walked the final twenty paces,she ...
"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 pace...
"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 bar...
"They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely o...
"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
"In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
"People say that eyes are windows to the soul.