A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
KHALED HOSSEINII’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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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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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 sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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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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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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There is a way to be good again.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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