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.
KHALED HOSSEINII’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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But then it passed, as all things do.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
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