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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

Khaled Hosseini

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
It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Connection Emotional Tremendous
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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Book Children Color Deep Parents Teaching Yourself
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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Alive Deep Family God Gratitude Husband Myself Son Thankful Wife
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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Empty Night Place Reality Rise Summer Tears Throat
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Beautiful Gift Stupidity
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
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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Children Deep Fair Father Husband Kill Life Lying Man Right Spiritual Theft Truth Wife Yourself
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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Courage Loss Myself Strength
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
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Eyes People Soul Window
But then it passed, as all things do.
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One Liner Pass Time Wisdom
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
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
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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Act Face Hard Person Punishment Simplicity Wait
War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Demand Peace Time War
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
Some stories don’t need telling.
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Need One Liner Story Talk
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
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Detail Greedy Theft Time
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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Extraordinary Truth Wait
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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Deep Goodness Lost Regret Return Wisdom
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Beautiful Herself Power Tea
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
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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Alive Deep Family God Gratitude Husband Myself Son Thankful Wife

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