A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
KHALED HOSSEINIAll good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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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.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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