Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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.
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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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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There is a way to be good again.
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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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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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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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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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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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