You can not stop you from being who you are.
KHALED HOSSEINIBehind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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There is a way to be good again.
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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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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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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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