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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Khaled Hosseini

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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Deep Goodness Lost Regret Return Wisdom
There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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Deep Lying Right Sin Theft Truth Wisdom
Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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Boy Direction Enjoyment Friendship See Sun Treat
But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Charm Deep Thinking Time Wisdom Yourself
I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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Goodness Kindness Myself Old Person Regret Thinking
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Eyes People Soul Window
A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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Attention Flower Pathetic See View Water
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Life Peace Quiet Silence Tranquility
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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Deserve Goodness Happiness Life Myself
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
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Beginning Important Life Missing Person Reality Start Story Try Understand Yourself
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Comfortable Hurt Lying Truth
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
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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Eyes Feeling Gratitude Happiness Hope Tears Trick Water
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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Action Deep Heart Punishment Understand
Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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Herself Justice Need

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