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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

Khaled Hosseini

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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Ability Feeling Ocean Ourselves Path Person Present Thinking True Universe Walk World
But then it passed, as all things do.
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One Liner Pass Time Wisdom
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Easy Fragile Goodness Life Lost
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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Deep Life Live Mindset Past Purpose Recognition Yourself
It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Connection Emotional Tremendous
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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English Existence Learning Word
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
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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Books Feeling Learning See Teaching Yourself
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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Choice Decision Hope Moral Oneself People Right Yourself
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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Bury Lying Reading Wrong Yourself
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Beautiful Herself Power Tea
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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Meaning People Talk Thinking Worth
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
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Afraid Deep Funny Guide Live People Wisdom
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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Change Fair Life Time Wrong
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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Aspiration Care Expectation Life Oneself Sad Stupidity

At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

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