“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― The Time Keeper
― The Time Keeper
“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“إذا ضقت ذرعاً بدواعى نفسك، فاسكن إلى زوجتك، فإن ضقت، فإلى أهل علمك (إن كنت طبيباً فإلي الأطباء) فإن ضقت، فإلي أهل معرفتك (أهل الله) فإن ضقت، فسر فى الأرض، فإن ضقت، فالزم بابى، فإن ضقت فيه، فاصبر، فإن ضقت فيه فاصبر، فإن ضقت فيه فاصبر..
ينفتح لك نوره ولا تخرج عنه على ضيق .. وصابر عليه وانتظر.”
― رأيت الله
ينفتح لك نوره ولا تخرج عنه على ضيق .. وصابر عليه وانتظر.”
― رأيت الله
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