Khaled Hosseini Quotes

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves