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 HOSSEINIPeople say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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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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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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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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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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There is a way to be good again.
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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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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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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