I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
KHALED HOSSEININot 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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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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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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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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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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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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