A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
KHALED HOSSEINIA sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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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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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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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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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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