A Thousand Splendid Suns Mariam Quotes & Sayings

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. — Steve Jobs

I won't have people judging you because of this. — Bianca Sommerland

It's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be. — Nadine Gordimer

When I met her, I saw her as someone else who needed saving but she had saved me. She had given me hope when I had given up on everything in my life. — Teresa Mummert

-sounds like the /ee/ sound in the English — Henry Ray

Renew your mind daily by reading the Holy Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Thereby men do not flee from being deceived as much as from being damaged by deception: what they hate at this stage is basically not the deception but the bad, hostile consequences of certain kinds of deceptions. In a similarly limited way man wants the truth: he desires the agreeable life-preserving consequences of truth, but he is indifferent to pure knowledge, which has no consequences; he is even hostile to possibly damaging and destructive truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche

So bright and golden and fair, so free fro shadow and so lavish of blossom. — L.M. Montgomery

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mariam kept her eyes to the ground, on her shadow, on her executioner's shadow trailing her.
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. She wished she could she Leila again, wished to hear the clangour of her laugh, ...

Mariam wished for so much in those final moments.
Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who has loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last.
This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings."
--A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way. — Phil Jackson

We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture. — Timothy Keller

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing. — Evelyn Lau

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these. — Pete Docter

You have five minutes or I decorate the tarmac with my brains. — Maya Banks