Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
KHALED HOSSEINIBut time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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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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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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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 time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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