Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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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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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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