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.
KHALED HOSSEINII’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.
More Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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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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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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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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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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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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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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