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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.

Khaled Hosseini

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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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The experience of writing ‘The Kite Runner’ is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
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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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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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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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