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.
KHALED HOSSEINIAnd that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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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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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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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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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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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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